different between spake vs spae

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spe?k/
• Rhymes: -e?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English spake, spak, from Old Norse spakr (“wise, gentle, quiet”), from Proto-Germanic *spakaz (“wise, clever”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pe?- (“to understand; intelligent, attentive”). Cognate with Swedish spak (“manageable”), Danish spag (“quiet, gentle, timid, tame”).

Adjective

spake (comparative more spake, superlative most spake)

1. (obsolete) Quiet; tame.
2. (obsolete) Ready; prompt.

Derived terms

• spakely

Etymology 2

From Middle English spak, from Old English spæc, first and third person singular past tense of specan (“to speak”). More at speak.

Verb

spake

1. (archaic) simple past tense of speak

References

• spake in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• spake in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• -speak, Akpes, Paeks, Pasek, Peaks, kapes, peaks, speak

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

spake

1. Alternative form of spoke

Etymology 2

Verb

spake

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of speken

English

Alternative forms

• spay

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots spae.

Verb

spae (third-person singular simple present spaes, present participle spaeing, simple past and past participle spaed)

1. (Scotland) To divine; foretell

Derived terms

• spae-craft
• spaeman
• spaewife

Anagrams

• EAPs, EPAs, PEAs, Paes, Peas, SEPA, apes, apse, pase, peas

Scots

Alternative forms

• spay

Etymology

From Northern Middle English sp?, from Old Norse spá (“to foretell, prophesy”), from Proto-Germanic *spah?n?, *speh?n? (“to observe”), from Proto-Indo-European *spe?- (“to look”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [spe]
• (Insular Scots) IPA^(key): [spo?]

Verb

spae (third-person singular present spaes, present participle spaein, past spaed, past participle spaed)

1. to prophesy, foretell, predict, tell fortunes
2. to anticipate, wish, have ambitions for

Derived terms

• spae-craft (“the art of predicting the future”)
• spaedom (“prophecy, fortunetelling”)
• spae-folk (“sorcerers, wizards”)
• spaeman (“fortuneteller, diviner, prophet”)
• spaer (“fortuneteller, soothsayer”)
• spae-trade (“the practice of fortune-telling, prophecy”)
• spae-wark (“prognosticating, prophesying, soothsaying”)
• spaewife (“female fortuneteller”)
• spae-woman (“female fortuneteller”)