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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

  1. 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
  2. discourse

Declension · weak n-stem

Declension of spræce
SingularPlural
Nominative sprǣċesprǣċan
Accusative sprǣċansprǣċan
Genitive sprǣċansprǣċena
Dative sprǣċansprǣċum

spræce2 · noun · inflected form

Senses

  1. inflection of sprǣċ:; accusative/genitive/dative singular

  2. inflection of sprǣċ:; nominative/accusative plural

  3. Inflected form of sprǣċ

spræce3 · verb · inflected form

Senses

  1. inflection of sprecan:; second-person singular preterite indicative

  2. inflection of sprecan:; singular preterite subjunctive

  3. Inflected form of sprecan

All forms (4)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sprākijā.

Descendants

speech

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