spake

Meanings

Adjective

• Quiet; tame.
• Ready; prompt.

Verb

• Past of speak

Origin

• 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").
• From Middle English spak, from Old English spæc, first and third person singular past tense of specan. More at speak.