forspeak
English
/fɔːˈspiːk/, /fɔɹˈspik/
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To injure or cause bad luck through immoderate praise or flattery; to affect with the curse of an evil tongue, which brings ill luck upon all objects of its praise.
- (transitive) To bewitch, to charm.
- (transitive) To forbid, to prohibit; to oppose.
- (transitive) To say bad things about; to slander.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English forspeken (bewitch) inherited from Old English forspecan prefix from English speak.
Origin
English
speak
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Newspeak English
- autospeak English
- bespeak English
- bullspeak English
- cyberspeak English
- duckspeak English
- farspeak English
- forespeak English
- forthspeak English
- inspeak English
- lolspeak English
- mallspeak English
- misspeak English
- newspeak English
- outspeak English
- overspeak English
- respeak English
- speak English
- speakability English
- speakable English
- speakeasy English
- speaker English
- speakest English
- speaketh English
- speakie English
- speaking English
- speako English
- speakout English
- speakworthy English
- textspeak English
- underspeak English
- unspeak English
- upspeak English
- withspeak English
- spiikki Finnish
- forspecan Old English
- forsprecan Old English
- forspeken Middle English
- speken Middle English
- newspeak Czech
- novořeč Czech
- spikka Faroese
- forspeak Scots
- pük Volapük
- spikön Volapük
- piki Sranan Tongo
- speak
- speako
- unspeak
- speaker
- bespeak
- inspeak
- speakie
- respeak
- upspeak
- speaking
- lolspeak
- speaketh
- speakest
- farspeak
- misspeak
- outspeak
- Newspeak
- speakout
- newspeak
- mallspeak
- autospeak
- textspeak
- duckspeak
- speakeasy
- bullspeak
- overspeak
- withspeak
- speakable
- forespeak
- forthspeak
- underspeak
- cyberspeak
- speakworthy
- speakability