Infinitive
speken; to speken; speke
Participles
| Present | spekynge; spekende |
| Past | speken; yspeken; speke; yspeke; spoken; yspoken; spoke; yspoke |
Indicative
Present
| 1st sing. | speke |
| 2nd sing. | spekest; spext |
| 3rd sing. | speketh; spekth |
| 1st plur. | speken; speke; speketh |
| 2nd plur. | speken; speke; speketh |
| 3rd plur. | speken; speke; speketh |
Past
| 1st sing. | spak; spek |
| 2nd sing. | speke; spake; spoke |
| 3rd sing. | spak; spek |
| 1st plur. | speken; speke; spaken; spake; spoken; spoke |
| 2nd plur. | speken; speke; spaken; spake; spoken; spoke |
| 3rd plur. | speken; speke; spaken; spake; spoken; spoke |
Subjunctive
Present
| 1st sing. | speke |
| 2nd sing. | speke |
| 3rd sing. | speke |
Past
| 1st sing. | speke; spake; spoke |
| 2nd sing. | speke; spake; spoke |
| 3rd sing. | speke; spake; spoke |
Imperative
| Singular | speke |
| Plural | speketh; speke |
Verbs conjugated like speken
speken,
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *spregʰ-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *spreg-?
4. Proto-Germanic *sprekaną
5. Proto-West Germanic *sprekan
6. Old English sprecan
7. Old English specan
8. Middle English speken
9. From Old English specan, from earlier sprecan, from Proto-West Germanic *sprekan, from Proto-Germanic *sprekaną. See: Old English '
specan', Proto-Germanic '
*sprekaną'.
Sample Sentences
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The title of the hundrid and eiȝtthe ſalm. To victorye, the ſalm of Dauid. / God, holde thou not ſtille my preiſyng; for the mouth of the ſynner, and the mouth of the gileful man is openyd on me. / Thei ſpaken ayens me with a gileful tunge, and thei cumpassiden me with wordis of hatrede; and fouȝten ayens me with out cauſe. (The title of the one hundred and eighth psalm: "To Victory; the Psalm of David" / God; don't hold still my praising, as the mouths of the sinners and the mouths of the guilty have opened against me. / They spoke against me with a guilty tongue, they acted against me with words of hatred, and they fought against me without justification.) [a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Psalms 108:1-3”, in Wycliffe's Bible:]
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14ᵗʰ Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
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And whan that he wel dronken hadde the wyn,
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Than wolde he speke no word but Latyn.
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And when he had drunk all the wine
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He would not speak a word other than Latin
Cognates
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