speak

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

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.

Noun

1. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
2. Speech, conversation.
3. (informal) Short for speaker point.

Noun

a low class bar, a speakeasy.

Concepts

parler

dire

exprimer

causer

discuter

bavarder

raconter

discourir

manifester

dialoguer

parole

discours

briser la glace

proposer

reconter

se mettre à parler

suggérer

laisser échapper

révéler

protester

prendre la parole

s’adresser à

mots secrets

faire un discours

émettre un son

déclarer

dire des bêtises

avoir son franc-parler

dire ses quatre vérités

dire son fait

franchement

être franc

être franche

être direct

adresse

suscription

jargon

représenter

s'exprimer

s'éxpliquer

communiquer

prononcer

narrer

rapporter

recompter

converser

papoter

parlez

formuler

phraser

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/spiːk/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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.

Phrases

In another , the female subject could speak Bengali with a poor pronunciation .

Dans un autre, le sujet féminin pourrait parler bengali avec une mauvaise prononciation.

Colotenango is traditionally a Maya community whose residents speak the Mayan Mam language .

Colotenango est traditionnellement une communauté maya dont les résidents parlent la langue Mayan Mam.