"spak" meaning in Scots

See spak in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: [spak]
Head templates: {{head|sco|verb form}} spak
  1. simple past tense of speak
    Sense id: en-spak-sco-verb-~0g4oagK Categories (other): Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries, Scots entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries, Tok Pisin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 6 entries: 4 3 1 29 29 22 9 2 1 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 2 1 29 29 21 13 2 1 0 Disambiguation of Tok Pisin entries with incorrect language header: 11 5 4 19 19 14 23 3 1 0
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  "lang_code": "sco",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1806, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3):",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, David Balfour, Second Part:",
          "text": "But whan he spak, it was mair in sorrow than in anger.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1898, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, Scottish sketches:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1896, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Adventures in Criticism:",
          "text": "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...\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, Frederic Moorman, More Tales of the Ridings:",
          "text": "Them was t' truest words he iver spak, an' shoo would hae been muck-cheap if I'd gien a million pund for her.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1857, Various, The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV.:",
          "text": "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!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1904, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Merry Men:",
          "text": "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?'",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1806, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3):",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, David Balfour, Second Part:",
          "text": "But whan he spak, it was mair in sorrow than in anger.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1898, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, Scottish sketches:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1896, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Adventures in Criticism:",
          "text": "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...\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1919, Frederic Moorman, More Tales of the Ridings:",
          "text": "Them was t' truest words he iver spak, an' shoo would hae been muck-cheap if I'd gien a million pund for her.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1857, Various, The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV.:",
          "text": "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!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1904, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Merry Men:",
          "text": "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?'",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "simple past tense of speak"
      ],
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        ]
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "[spak]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spak"
}

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