Speak

What “Speak” means

Verb

1. To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
2. To have a conversation.
3. To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
4. To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
5. To be able to communicate in a language.

Noun

1. Language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
2. Speech, conversation.
3. Clipping of speaker point.

Noun

1. a low class bar, a speakeasy.

Where the word comes from

From Middle English speke, speken (“to speak”), from Old English specan (“to speak”). This is usually taken to be an irregular alteration of earlier sprecan, spreocan (“to speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *sprekan, from Proto-Germanic *sprekaną (“to speak, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *spreg- (“to make a sound, utter, speak”). Finding this proposed loss of r from the stable cluster spr unparalleled, Hill instead sets up a different root, Proto-West Germanic *spekan (“to negotiate”) from Proto-Indo-European *bʰégʾ-e- (“to distribute”) with *s-mobile, which collapsed in meaning with *sprekan ("to speak" < "to crackle, prattle") and so came to be seen as a free variant thereof. Cognates Cognate with Scots speak, speik (“to speak”), Saterland Frisian spreke (“to speak”), West Frisian sprekke (“to speak”), Central Franconian sjprèche (“to speak”), Dutch and Low German spreken (“t

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Industries where “Speak” fits

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• Translation Service
• Translation and Interpretation Services