speken

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === spek, speke spæcken, speoken (Early Middle English); speake, speek, spekon, spekyn (Late Middle English) speck, speike (Northern, Northwest Midland); spekenn (Ormulum) === Etymology === From Old English specan, from earlier sprecan, from Proto-West Germanic *sprekan, from Proto-Germanic *sprekaną. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈspɛ̞ːkən/ === Verb === speken (third-person singular simple present speketh, present participle spekynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative spak, past participle speken) to speak (communicate using the voice) 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue And whan that he wel dronken hadde the wyn,Than wolde he speke no word but Latyn. And when he had drunk all the wineHe would not speak a word other than Latin ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== mysspeken spekere ==== Descendants ==== English: speak English: (West Yorkshire) speyk English: (Ottawa-Valley) spek, spik Middle Scots: speke, speik Scots: speik, speak, spik, spikk ==== References ==== “spēken, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.