The story
- Proto-Indo-European*spregʰ-?
- Proto-Indo-European*spreg-?
- Proto-Germanic*sprekaną
- Proto-West Germanic*sprekan
- Old Englishsprecan
- Old Englishspecan
- Middle Englishspeken
- Middle Englishspekere, speker
- English todayspeaker
From Middle English speker, spekere, an alteration (with change of suffix) of Old English speca, spreca (“speaker”), from Proto-Germanic *sprekô (“speaker”), equivalent to speak + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Spreeker (“speaker”), West Frisian sprekker (“speaker”), Dutch spreker (“speaker”), German Low German Spreker (“speaker”), German Sprecher (“speaker”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.