Old English sprecan

← Proto-West Germanic *sprekan (inherited)

→ English speak (mention)

→ Old English gesprecan (mention)

→ Old English sprecol (suffix)

→ Old English wiþsprecan (prefix)

→ Old English forþsprecan (prefix)

→ Old English forsprecan (prefix)

→ Old English besprecan (prefix)

→ Old English missprecan (prefix)

→ Old English ofersprecan (affix)

→ Middle English speken (mention)

→ Old High German sprehhan (cognate)

→ Scots speak (inherited)

→ Albanian shpreh (cognate)