spake

«spake» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: spoke — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

spoke

part of speech

verb, past tense of speak

meaning for a pupil

Said words aloud, in the past. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say spoke. The sentences use the same sense.

examples

• Thus spake Dvina while blessing him:-- (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →
• And she spake to her and said: (The Pink Fairy Book) tree →
• Thus spake the old man, and straightway disappeared. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →

primary record

spoke

tests

manual 6; corpora 48 (Torah 0, tales 48, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 5.4 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «spake» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.