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ǣ
ċ
N (fem)
speech
Source:
https://bosworthtoller.com/28547
Attested in
Aelfric's Colloquy 1
,
Aelfric's Colloquy 2
("sprǣcum")
originates from
PWGmc
*sprāki
"speech" (sprāki
>
sprǣki
>
sprǣċi
>
sprǣċ) through pwgmc-to-oe
(source:
Ringe 2014
:209)
PGmc
*sprēkō-
"speech" (sprēkō-
>
sprākō
>
sprākū
>
sprāku
>
sprǣku
>
sprāku
>
sprāk) through pgmc-to-oe
(source:
Kroonen 2013
:469)
Inflected forms
sprǣcum
"speech
.dat.pl
" (
oe-dat-pl
)
Paradigms