spearca

Old English

Alternative forms

spærca

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sparkō, from Proto-Germanic *sprakô.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈspæ͜ɑr.kɑ/, [ˈspæ͜ɑrˠ.kɑ]

Noun

spearca m

(literal or figurative) a spark
Synonyms: *funca, fȳrgnāst, *gnāst, ysel, ysle

Declension

Declension of spearca (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	spearca	spearcan
accusative	spearcan	spearcan
genitive	spearcan	spearcena
dative	spearcan	spearcum

Derived terms

fȳrspearca
spearcian
spierċan
- ⇒ Old English: forspierċan

Descendants

Middle English: sparke, sparc, sparck, spark, sperk, sperke
- English: spark (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: spark, sperk

Verb

spearca

second-person singular imperative of spearcian

References

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “SPEARCA”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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