Old English · noun
spræce
Normalised sprǣċe
- Part of speech
- noun, feminine
- Declension
- weak n-stem
- IPA
- /ˈspræː.t͡ʃe/
- Syllables
- ˈspræː · t͡ʃe (2 syllables)
- Modern English
- talkspeech
spræce1 · noun · feminine
Senses
-
a talk
Æfter þyssere sprǣċe cōmon ðā drȳmen, and hæfdon him mid tweġen ormǣte dracan, ðǣra orðung ācwealde þæt earme mennisċ: ac sē apostol Matheus þā dracan ġeswefode, and siððan of ðām lande adrǣfde, swā þæt hī næfre siððan þǣr ġesewene nǣron.
After this speech came the sorcerers, who had two enormous dragons which them, whose breath killed that poor man: but the apostle Matthew lulled the dragons to sleep, and then drove them from the land, so that they have never been seen there since.
Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church -
discourse
Declension · weak n-stem
spræce2 · noun · inflected form
Senses
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inflection of sprǣċ:; accusative/genitive/dative singular
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inflection of sprǣċ:; nominative/accusative plural
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Inflected form of sprǣċ
spræce3 · verb · inflected form
Senses
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inflection of sprecan:; second-person singular preterite indicative
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inflection of sprecan:; singular preterite subjunctive
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Inflected form of sprecan
All forms (4)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *sprākijā.
Descendants
speech
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