spake

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative form of spoke (of a wheel). Scotland,alt-of,alternative
  2. A type of wagon on rails used for carrying workers in and out of a colliery. Wales
动词 v.
  1. simple past of speak archaic,form-of,past
    — And God ſpake vnto Noah, ſaying, / Goe foorth of the Arke, thou, and thy wife, and thy ſonnes, and thy ſonnes wiues with thee:[…]
形容词 adj.
  1. Quiet; tame. obsolete
  2. Ready; prompt. obsolete

词形变化

more spake comparative most spake superlative spakes plural spakes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
spakely

词源

词源 1
From Middle English spake, spak, from Old Norse spakr (“wise, gentle, quiet”), from Proto-Germanic *spakaz (“wise, clever”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peǵ- (“to understand; intelligent, attentive”). Cognate with Swedish spak (“manageable”), Danish spag (“quiet, gentle, timid, tame”).
词源 2
From Middle English spak, from Old English spæc, first and third person singular past tense of specan (“to speak”). More at speak.
词源 3
Alternative form.
词源 4
Uncertain. Possibly a variant of spoke, which has a variety of extended senses in English dialects and in Scots (including a tree branch or cutting, a windmill's arm, a birdcage's perch, and a bar for carrying a coffin), though none closely matching this.
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