The story
- Old English · derived fromspec“brushwood”
- English todaySpeke
* As an English surname, variant of Speak, itself a variant of Speake, all related to the placename below. * The placename is either from Old English spec (“brushwood”) or the obsolete noun speight (“woodpecker”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishspec all →
Spetchley
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.