Where does “speeches” come from?
Speeches derives from Middle English speche, Old English sprǣċ, Proto-Germanic sprēkijō, and Proto-Indo-European spereg-, ultimately from the root (s)per-.
speeches (English): plural of speech; Third-person singular simple...
Definitions
- plural of speech; Third-person singular simple...
Ancestry of “speeches”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | speech | The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or... |
| 2 | Middle English | speche | speaking, speech; dialogue, discussion,... |
| 3 | Old English | spǣċ | — |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | *sprāku | — |