wiþsprecan

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *wiþisprekan, equivalent to wiþ- +‎ sprecan. Compare Old Frisian withspreka, Old High German widarsprehhan.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /wiθˈspre.kɑn/

Verb

wiþsprecan

to speak against, revile, withsay

Conjugation

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Descendants

Middle English: withspeken
- English: withspeak

Further reading

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

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