Feminine

spraak

Meaning

  1. (feminine) speech (act, manner or faculty of speaking)
  2. (archaic, feminine) language

Frequency

C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/spraːk/
Etymology

In summary

From earlier sprake, from Middle Dutch sprâke, from Old Dutch sprāca, from Proto-West Germanic *sprākkijā, *sprāku; the word thus ultimately represents an ablauted derivation, with lengthened vowel (vṛddhi), from the same root as spreken.

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