"speken" meaning in Middle English

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  "etymology_text": "From Old English specan, from earlier sprecan, from Proto-West Germanic *sprekan, from Proto-Germanic *sprekaną.",
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    },
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      ]
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    },
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        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
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      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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        "present"
      ]
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        "past",
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      ]
    },
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    },
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        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
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        "present"
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      ]
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      "form": "spekynge",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "spekende",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "present"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "speken",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "past"
      ]
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      "tags": [
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        "past"
      ]
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      ]
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      ]
    },
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        "past"
      ]
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        "past"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "spoke",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
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        "4a": "spok",
        "class": "5",
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        "y": "2"
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  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Fundamental"
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        {
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The title of the one hundred and eighth psalm: \"To Victory; the Psalm of David\" / God; don't hold still my praising, as the mouths of the sinners and the mouths of the guilty have opened against me. / They spoke against me with a guilty tongue, they acted against me with words of hatred, and they fought against me without justification.",
          "ref": "a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Psalms 108:1-3”, in Wycliffe's Bible",
          "text": "The title of the hundrid and eiȝtthe ſalm. To victorye, the ſalm of Dauid. / God, holde thou not ſtille my preiſyng; for the mouth of the ſynner, and the mouth of the gileful man is openyd on me. / Thei ſpaken ayens me with a gileful tunge, and thei cumpassiden me with wordis of hatrede; and fouȝten ayens me with out cauſe.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "14ᵗʰ Century, Chaucer, General Prologue\nAnd whan that he wel dronken hadde the wyn,\nThan wolde he speke no word but Latyn.\nAnd when he had drunk all the wine\nHe would not speak a word other than Latin"
        }
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        "to speak (communicate using the voice)"
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "speak",
          "speak"
        ]
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    }
  ],
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}

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        "present"
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        "plural"
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        "plural"
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    },
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        "plural"
      ]
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        "past"
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      "args": {
        "1": "speketh",
        "2": "spekynge",
        "3": "spak",
        "4": "speken"
      },
      "expansion": "speken (third-person singular simple present speketh, present participle spekynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative spak, past participle speken)",
      "name": "enm-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "spek",
        "2": "spak",
        "2a": "spek",
        "2s2": "spext",
        "3": "spek",
        "3a": "spak",
        "3a2": "spok",
        "3s2": "spekth",
        "4a": "spok",
        "class": "5",
        "class2": "4",
        "y": "2"
      },
      "name": "enm-conj-st"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English class 4 strong verbs",
        "Middle English class 5 strong verbs",
        "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
        "Middle English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "Middle English lemmas",
        "Middle English terms derived from Old English",
        "Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
        "Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
        "Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
        "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
        "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
        "Middle English terms with quotations",
        "Middle English verbs",
        "enm:Talking"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The title of the one hundred and eighth psalm: \"To Victory; the Psalm of David\" / God; don't hold still my praising, as the mouths of the sinners and the mouths of the guilty have opened against me. / They spoke against me with a guilty tongue, they acted against me with words of hatred, and they fought against me without justification.",
          "ref": "a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Psalms 108:1-3”, in Wycliffe's Bible",
          "text": "The title of the hundrid and eiȝtthe ſalm. To victorye, the ſalm of Dauid. / God, holde thou not ſtille my preiſyng; for the mouth of the ſynner, and the mouth of the gileful man is openyd on me. / Thei ſpaken ayens me with a gileful tunge, and thei cumpassiden me with wordis of hatrede; and fouȝten ayens me with out cauſe.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "14ᵗʰ Century, Chaucer, General Prologue\nAnd whan that he wel dronken hadde the wyn,\nThan wolde he speke no word but Latyn.\nAnd when he had drunk all the wine\nHe would not speak a word other than Latin"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to speak (communicate using the voice)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "speak",
          "speak"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "speken"
}