"sped" meaning in Middle English

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Noun

IPA: /speːd/ Forms: spede [dative, singular], spede [alternative, Late-Middle-English], speed [alternative, Late-Middle-English], speede [alternative, Late-Middle-English], spyde [alternative, Late-Middle-English], spied [alternative]
Etymology: Inherited from Old English spēd, for earlier spœ̄d, from Proto-West Germanic *spōdi, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *speh₁-. Etymology templates: {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|enm|ang|spēd|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old English spēd, {{inh+|enm|ang|spēd}} Inherited from Old English spēd, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*spōdi}} Proto-West Germanic *spōdi, {{der|enm|ine-pro|*speh₁-}} Proto-Indo-European *speh₁- Head templates: {{head|enm|noun|g=|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} sped, {{enm-noun|-|dat=spede}} sped (uncountable, dative singular spede)
  1. fortune, luck (especially good)
    success (the achievement of a goal)
    Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-sped-enm-noun-Qlf2mqHb Categories (other): Mathematics, Quantity Disambiguation of Mathematics: 30 30 6 6 6 6 17 Disambiguation of Quantity: 27 27 6 6 9 3 21
  2. fortune, luck (especially good)
    (rare) abundance, prosperity
    Tags: rare, uncountable
    Sense id: en-sped-enm-noun-ASuc6Ci2 Categories (other): Mathematics, Quantity Disambiguation of Mathematics: 30 30 6 6 6 6 17 Disambiguation of Quantity: 27 27 6 6 9 3 21
  3. speed, velocity (rate of action, usually motion):
    speediness, haste (fast movement or action)
    Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-sped-enm-noun-dYQ52~rz Categories (other): Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries, Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 6 entries: 19 15 9 9 31 3 3 9 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 15 12 7 7 46 2 2 7 2 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 19 19 32 7 5 16 3
  4. speed, velocity (rate of action, usually motion):
    power, efficacy (capacity to effect)
    Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-sped-enm-noun-2nas4lVI
  5. help, assistance (something ameliorative) Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-sped-enm-noun-mEmgaRLW
  6. (Late Middle English) benefit (something positive) Tags: Late-Middle-English, uncountable
    Sense id: en-sped-enm-noun-WKxWtuGP Categories (other): Late Middle English
  7. (rare) intent, aim, goal Tags: rare, uncountable
    Sense id: en-sped-enm-noun--bCkZ7~Z Categories (other): Mathematics, Quantity Disambiguation of Mathematics: 30 30 6 6 6 6 17 Disambiguation of Quantity: 27 27 6 6 9 3 21
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: speden, spedful, spedfully, spedly, spedy, spedyly

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-04-01 using wiktextract (7de0cf9 and 9452535). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.