From Old Norse spá, from Proto-Germanic *spahōną, cognate with Norwegian, Swedish spå. A variant of *spehōną, which is the source of German spähen (“to spy”) (and, via French, English spy).
spå (past tense spåede, past participle spået)
spå (imperative spå, present tense spår, passive spås, simple past spådde, past participle spådd, present participle spående)
From Old Norse spá, from Proto-Germanic *spahōną, *spēhōną. Related to Latin specere (“to see”).
spå (present tense spår, past tense spådde, past participle spådd or spått, passive infinitive spåast, present participle spåande, imperative spå)
From Old Norse spá (“to foretell, prophesy”), from Proto-Germanic *spahōną, *spēhōną (“to observe”), from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- (“to look”).
spå (present spår, preterite spådde, supine spått, imperative spå)
| Active | Passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | spå | spås | ||
| Supine | spått | spåtts | ||
| Imperative | spå | — | ||
| Imper. plural1 | spån | — | ||
| Present | Past | Present | Past | |
| Indicative | spår | spådde | spås | spåddes |
| Ind. plural1 | spå | spådde | spås | spåddes |
| Subjunctive2 | spå | spådde | spås | spåddes |
| Participles | ||||
| Present participle | spående | |||
| Past participle | spådd | |||
| 1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. | ||||