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spake

Pronunciation: /speɪk/

The English word “spake” has 3 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Quiet; tame.
  2. Ready; prompt.

noun

  1. A type of wagon on rails used for carrying workers in and out of a colliery.

Etymology

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”).

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