Where does “sprāke” come from?

sprāke (Middle Low German) comes from Old Saxon sprāka, from Proto-West Germanic *sprāku — speech, language.

Ancestry of “sprāke”, step by step

sprāke traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old Saxon sprāka

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Saxonsprākaspeech
2Proto-West Germanic*sprākuspeech, language

via Proto-Germanic *sprāku

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanic*sprāku—

Words derived from “sprāke”

Every word from Proto-West Germanic *sprāku →Every word from Old Saxon sprāka →