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語源

From 古期英語 spǣċ, a form of sprǣċ, from Proto-West Germanic *sprāku. Some forms are influenced by the verb speken.

発音

• IPA: /ˈspɛ̝ːt͡ʃ(ə)/, /ˈspeːt͡ʃ(ə)/, (East Saxon) /ˈspaːt͡ʃ(ə)/
• IPA: /ˈspɛ̝ːk(ə)/, /ˈspeːk(ə)/ (influenced by speken)

名詞

speche (plural speches or (mostly early) spechen)

1. speaking, speech
   • 1297, Robert of Gloucester, Chronicles, section 8005:

     Milce nas þer mid him [King William] non...Ac as a tirant tormentor in speche & ek in dede.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. dialogue, discussion, conversation
3. remark, claim
4. writing, text
5. meeting, conference
6. language, tongue

   Synonyms: langage, tonge, thede, leden

   • a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Book II”, in Troilus and Criseyde, lines 22–28:

     Ȝe knowe ek that in fourme of ſpeche is chaunge / With-inne a thousand ȝeer, and wordes tho /That hadden pris now wonder nyce and ſtraunge /Us thenketh hem, and ȝet thei ſpake hem so / And ſpedde as wel in loue as men now do / Ek forto wynnen loue in ſondry ages / In ſondry londes, ſondry ben vſages […]

     You also know that the form of language is in flux; / within a thousand years, words / that had currency; really weird and bizarre / they seem to us now, but they still spoke them / and accomplished as much in love as men do now. / As for winning love across ages and / across nations, there are lots of usages […]

派生した語

• English: speech (obsolete speach)
  • → Dutch: speech
  • → French: speech
  • → Romanian: speech
• Middle Scots: speche, speiche
  • Scots: speech

参照

• “spēch(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 March 2018.