Speak

Morpheme

Speak

Type

free base

Denotation

talk, utter words, make a sound, hold discourse

Etymology

Middle English speken; Old English specan, from sprecan

Evidence

adspeak, algospeak, artspeak, babyspeak, bespeak, bullspeak, catspeak, chatspeak, childspeak, cyberspeak, diplospeak, doublespeak, elderspeak, envirospeak, forespeak, kidspeak, lawyerspeak, leetspeak, loudspeaker, medspeak, misspeak, nerdspeak, netspeak, newspeak, peacespeak, speak, speakable, speakeasy, speaker, speakerphone, speaking, speaks, teenspeak, textspeak, unspeakable, unspeakableness, youthspeak

See Also

Spoke, Speech