Where does “speech” come from?
Speech comes from Middle English speche, Old English sprǣċ, Proto-Germanic sprēkijō, and Proto-Indo-European spereg-, ultimately from the root (s)per-.
speech (English): The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or...
Definitions
- The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or...
Ancestry of “speech”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Middle English | speche | speaking, speech; dialogue, discussion,... |
| 2 | Old English | spǣċ | — |
| 3 | Proto-West Germanic | *sprāku | — |
Words derived from “speech”