speak

Meanings

To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
To have a conversation.
To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
To be able to communicate in a language.
To utter.
To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
To understand (as though it were a language).
To produce a sound; to sound.
Of a bird, to be able to vocally reproduce words or phrases from a human language.
To address; to accost; to speak to.

language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
Speech, conversation.
a low class bar, a speakeasy.

From Middle English speken, from Old English specan, alteration of earlier sprecan, from Proto-West Germanic *sprekan, from Proto-Germanic *sprekaną, from Proto-Indo-European *spreg-.
Cognate with West Frisian sprekke, Low German spreken, Dutch spreken, German sprechen, and also with Albanian shpreh through Indo-European.

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