spake

• IPA^(key): /speɪk/
• Rhymes: -eɪk

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”).

spake (comparative more spake, superlative most spake)

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

• spakely

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

spake

1. (archaic) simple past tense of speak
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981:

     , Genesis 8:15-16

     And God spake unto Noah, saying,
     Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

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

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

spake

1. Alternative form of spoke