Other Word Forms of Speech
Noun
Singular:
speech
Plural:
speeches
Origin of Speech
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From Middle English speche, from Old English spǣċ, sprǣċ (“speech, discourse, language"), from Proto-Germanic *sprÄ“kijō, *sprÄ“kō (“speech, language"), from Proto-Indo-European *spereg-, *spreg- (“to make a sound"). Cognate with Dutch spraak (“speech"), German Sprache (“language, speech"). More at speak.
From Wiktionary
Middle English speche from Old English sprǣc, spǣc
See AlsoInformative Speaking | Department of CommunicationSpeech Function on the Text Romeo and Juliet Drama | KnE Social SciencesDifferent Ways to End a Presentation or Speech – VirtualSpeechParts of Speech - Definition, 8 Types and ExamplesFrom American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Speech Sentence Examples
I guess the speech went pretty well.
You made that silly speech the other night and I'm still not buying.
It is a little speech that I have written for him.
All parts of speech, except adverbs, are declined by terminational inflections.
What a curious thing SPEECH is!
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