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spak

See also: Spak and Späk

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Old English spræc, spæc (“spoke (past tense of speak)”).

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spak

  1. first/third-person singular past indicative of speken
  2. (later) second-person singular past indicative of speken

Etymology 2

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From Old English spāca (“spoke (support surrounding the centre of a wheel)”).

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spak

  1. Alternative form of spoke

Norwegian Bokmål

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spak m (definite singular spaken, indefinite plural spaker, definite plural spakene)

  1. a lever

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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spak m (definite singular spaken, indefinite plural spakar, definite plural spakane)

  1. a lever

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Scots

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Pronunciation

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spak

  1. simple past tense of speak
    • 1806, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)‎[1]:
      Then spak the lord, hight Hamilton, And to the nobil king said he, "My sovereign prince, sum counsell take, First at your nobilis, syne at me.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, David Balfour, Second Part‎[2]:
      But whan he spak, it was mair in sorrow than in anger.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1898, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, Scottish sketches‎[3]:
      And I'll do this messenger justice; he laid down no law to me, he only spak o' the duty laid on his own conscience; but my conscience said 'Amen' to his--that's about it.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1896, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Adventures in Criticism‎[4]:
      Ful wel she song the service divyne, Entuned in hir nose ful semely; And Frensh she spak ful faire and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe, For Frensh of Paris was to hir unknowe..."
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1919, Frederic Moorman, More Tales of the Ridings‎[5]:
      Them was t' truest words he iver spak, an' shoo would hae been muck-cheap if I'd gien a million pund for her."
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1857, Various, The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV.‎[6]:
      I went unto her mother, and I argued and I fleech'd, I spak o' love and honesty, and mair and mair beseech'd; But she was deaf to a' my grief, she wadna look on me; O poverty!
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1904, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Merry Men‎[7]:
      Het as he was, he took a kind o' cauld grue in the marrow o' his banes; but up he spak for a' that; an' says he: 'My friend, are you a stranger in this place?'
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Swedish

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse spakr (“wise, mild”).

Adjective

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spak (comparative spakare, superlative spakast)

  1. powerless, tired, obedient, tame, calm, easy, reasonable; of a person or animal that used to resist, but has given up the fight; of calm water
    spak som ett lamm
    tame as a lamb
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Inflection of spak
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular spak spakare spakast
Neuter singular spakt spakare spakast
Plural spaka spakare spakast
Masculine plural3 spake spakare spakast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 spake spakare spakaste
All spaka spakare spakaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic
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Etymology 2

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From Old Swedish spaker (“rod, stick, lever”), from Middle Low German spake, cognate with Danish spag (“spoke”), Dutch spaak (“spoke”), and English spoke.

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spak c

  1. a lever used to control some machine; a lever, a rod, a handle, a stick, a joystick, a control
    Han drog i spaken
    He pulled the lever
    Nazisterna sitter vid spakarna
    The Nazis are in control
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Declension of spak
nominative genitive
singular indefinite spak spaks
definite spaken spakens
plural indefinite spakar spakars
definite spakarna spakarnas
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Tok Pisin

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Etymology

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From English spark.

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spak

  1. spark

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spak

  1. drunk
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