spræce

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Old English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *sprākijā.

Noun

sprǣċe f

  1. a talk
    • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
      Æfter þyssere sprǣċe cōmon ðā drȳmen, and hæfdon him mid tweġen ormǣte dracan, ðǣra orðung ācwealde þæt earme mennisċ: ac sē apostol Matheus þā dracan ġeswefode, and siððan of ðām lande adrǣfde, swā þæt hī næfre siððan þǣr ġesewene nǣron.
      After this speech came the sorcerers, who had two enormous dragons which them, whose breath killed that poor man: but the apostle Matthew lulled the dragons to sleep, and then drove them from the land, so that they have never been seen there since.
  2. discourse
Declension

Weak feminine (n-stem):

singular plural
nominative sprǣċe sprǣċan
accusative sprǣċan sprǣċan
genitive sprǣċan sprǣċena
dative sprǣċan sprǣċum

Etymology 2

Noun

sprǣċe

  1. inflection of sprǣċ:
    1. accusative/genitive/dative singular
    2. nominative/accusative plural

Etymology 3

Verb

sprǣce

  1. inflection of sprecan:
    1. second-person singular preterite indicative
    2. singular preterite subjunctive
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