The story
- Proto-Indo-European*mey-?
- Proto-Indo-European*meyth₂-
- Proto-Germanic*missaz
- Proto-Germanic*missa-
- Proto-West Germanic*missa-
- Old Englishmis-
- Proto-Indo-European*spregʰ-?
- Proto-Indo-European*spreg-?
- Proto-Germanic*sprekaną
- Proto-West Germanic*sprekan
- Old Englishsprecan
- Old Englishmissprecan
- Middle Englishmysspeken
- English todaymisspeak
From Middle English misspeken, mispeken, mysspeken, from Old English *misspecan, missprecan (“to murmur”), equivalent to mis- + speak.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.