spraka

== Old Saxon == === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *sprāku (“speech, speaking, language”). === Noun === sprāka f speech language ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== firinsprāka ==== Related terms ==== sprekan ==== Descendants ==== Middle Low German: sprâke German Low German: Sprake, Spraak Plautdietsch: Sproak → Danish: sprogNorwegian Bokmål: språk→ Icelandic: sprok →⇒ Faroese: spráka North Frisian: Sylt: Spraak → Norwegian: språk → Old Swedish: sprak Swedish: språk == Swedish == === Etymology === Onomatopoeic. === Verb === spraka (present sprakar, preterite sprakade, supine sprakat, imperative spraka) to crackle (often while emitting sparks), to sparkle to be vibrant; to sparkle ==== Usage notes ==== Used of for example fire, electric discharges, and poorly functioning loudspeakers. Associated both with the sound and with any associated sparks, and by extension with vibrant things. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== See also ==== gnistra (“sparkle”) ==== References ==== “spraka”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “spraka”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “spraka”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)