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Signification (English)

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

parler

dire des bêtises

dire ses quatre vérités

dire son fait

émettre un son

faire un discours

reconter

s’adresser à

se mettre à parler

être franc

avoir son franc-parler

mots secrets

être franche

être direct

s'exprimer

s'éxpliquer

laisser échapper

address

declare

speak loudly

have a conversation

give a speech

talk to

deliver a lecture

say to someone

make a sound

nicely

talk of

be pregnant

converse with

deliberate over

have a talk with

hold forth

make a speech

make a statement

make sound

put into words

say something

talk to oneself

utter a sound

start talking

exchange words

abuse

be said

utter a word

be acquainted

be engaged in conversation

open the mouth

speak rudely

speak to royalty

utter a promise

vocaliize

speak articulately

speak utter

make a

hold conversation with

hold intercourse with

secret words

speak Tacheles

do some straight talking

address oneself

be present

declare oneself

have a chat

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/spiːk/

Inherited from moyen anglais

Inherited from ancien anglais

Cognate with frison occidental

Cognate with bas-allemand

Cognate with néerlandais

Cognate with allemand

Cognate with albanais

In summary

From Middle English speken (“to speak”), from Old English specan (“to speak”). This is usually taken to be an irregular alteration of earlier sprecan (“to speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *sprekan, from Proto-Germanic *sprekaną (“to speak, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *spreg- (“to make a sound, utter, speak”). Finding this proposed loss of r from the stable cluster spr unparalleled, Hill instead sets up a different root, Proto-West Germanic *spekan (“to negotiate”) from Proto-Indo-European *bʰégʾ-e- (“to distribute”) with *s-mobile, which collapsed in meaning with *sprekan ("to speak" < "to crackle, prattle") and so came to be seen as a free variant thereof. Cognates: Cognate with West Frisian sprekke, Low German spreken (“to speak”), Dutch spreken (“to speak”), German sprechen (“to speak”), and also with Albanian shpreh (“to utter, voice, express”) through Indo-European.

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