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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sprekan

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sprekaną.

Verb

*sprekan[1][2]

  1. to speak

Inflection

Strong class 5
Infinitive *sprekan
1st sg. past *sprak
3rd pl. past *sprākun
Past ptcple *sprekan
Infinitive *sprekan
Genitive infin. *sprekannjas
Dative infin. *sprekannjē
Instrum. infin. *sprekannju
Indicative Present Past
1st singular *spreku *sprak
2nd singular *sprikiʀi *sprākī
3rd singular *sprikidi *sprak
1st plural *sprekum *sprākum
2nd plural *sprikid *sprākud
3rd plural *sprekand *sprākun
Subjunctive Present Past
1st singular *sprekē *sprākī
2nd singular *sprekēs *sprākī
3rd singular *sprekē *sprākī
1st plural *sprekēm *sprākīm
2nd plural *sprekēþ *sprākīd
3rd plural *sprekēn *sprākīn
Imperative Present
Singular *sprik
Plural *sprikid
Present Past
Participle *sprekandī *sprekan

Descendants

References

  1. Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 127:*sprekan
  2. Friedrich Kluge (1989) “sprechen”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 690-691:wg. *sprek-a-
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