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Where does “spǣċ” come from?

spǣċ (Old English) comes from Proto-West Germanic *sprāku.

Ancestry of “spǣċ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanic*sprāku—

Words derived from “spǣċ”

  • speech
  • speeches
  • speechwriter
  • speechwriting
  • nonspeech
  • speechmaking
  • speechreading
  • speechmaker
  • speechify
  • speechlike
  • cyberspeech
  • prespeech
  • counterspeech
  • speechifier
  • speechful
  • protospeech
  • midspeech
  • speeching
  • speechification
  • speechy
  • antispeech
  • speechcraft
  • speechfulness
  • misspeech
Every word from Proto-West Germanic *sprāku →