spoke

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• Received-Pronunciation: /spəʊk/
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• General-American: /spoʊk/
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• rhymes with -əʊk
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From Middle English spoke, from Old English spāca, from Proto-West Germanic *spaikā, from Proto-Germanic *spaikō. Compare Scots spaik (“spoke”), Dutch spaak and English spike.

From Middle English speke, spake, spoke, spak, spek, speken, spoken, from Old English spæc, specen.

94 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: spicë — part of a wheel
• Arabic: سِلْك m شُعَاع (šuʕāʕ) — part of a wheel
• Arabic: سلْك (səlk) — part of a wheel
• Armenian: անվաճաղ (anvačaġ) — part of a wheel
• Armenian: ճաղ (čaġ) — part of a wheel
• Azerbaijani: dəndənə — part of a wheel
• Azerbaijani: dəndə — part of a wheel
• Belarusian: спі́ца (spíca) — part of a wheel
• Bulgarian: спи́ца (spíca) — part of a wheel
• Burmese: စပုတ်တိုင် (ca.puttuing) — part of a wheel
• Burmese: အကန့် (a.kan.) — part of a wheel
• Catalan: radi — part of a wheel
• Catalan: raig — part of a wheel
• Chinese Mandarin: 輻條 /辐条 (fútiáo) — part of a wheel
• Chinese Mandarin: 輻 /辐 (fú) — part of a wheel
• Czech: paprsek — part of a wheel
• Czech: špice — part of a wheel
• Danish: ege — part of a wheel
• Dutch: spaak — part of a wheel
• Esperanto: spoko — part of a wheel
• Esperanto: radio — part of a wheel
• Estonian: kodar — part of a wheel
• Finnish: puola — part of a wheel
• Finnish: pinna — part of a wheel
• French: rayon — part of a wheel
• Galician: radio — part of a wheel
• German: Speiche — part of a wheel
• Greek: ακτίνα (aktína) — part of a wheel
• Ancient Greek: κνήμη (knḗmē) — part of a wheel
• Hebrew: חִשּׁוּר (khishúr) — part of a wheel
• Hungarian: küllő — part of a wheel
• Icelandic: spæll — part of a wheel
• Ingrian: värttänä — part of a wheel
• Italian: raggio — part of a wheel
• Italian: razzo — part of a wheel
• Japanese: スポーク (supōku) — part of a wheel
• Japanese: 輻 (ya) — part of a wheel
• Kazakh: кегей (kegei) — part of a wheel
• Kazakh: шабақ (şabaq) — part of a wheel
• Khmer: កាំ (kam) — part of a wheel
• Korean: 바퀴살 (bakwisal) — part of a wheel
• Korean: 살 (sal) — part of a wheel
• Kyrgyz: чабак (cabak) — part of a wheel
• Lao: ດິ້ວກົງລົດ (diu kong lot) — part of a wheel
• Latvian: spieķis — part of a wheel
• Luxembourgish: Speech — part of a wheel
• Macedonian: спица (spica) — part of a wheel
• Māori: tītoko — part of a wheel
• Norman: rai — part of a wheel
• Norwegian: trinn — part of a wheel
• Norwegian Bokmål: eike — part of a wheel
• Norwegian Nynorsk: eike — part of a wheel
• Iranian Persian: پَرِه (pare) — part of a wheel
• Iranian Persian: پَرِّه (parre) — part of a wheel
• Plautdietsch: Spieekj — part of a wheel
• Polish: szprycha — part of a wheel
• Portuguese: raio — part of a wheel
• Romanian: spiță — part of a wheel
• Russian: спи́ца (spíca) — part of a wheel
• Scottish Gaelic: bas — part of a wheel
• Scottish Gaelic: spòg — part of a wheel
• Serbo-Croatian: спи̏ца — part of a wheel
• Serbo-Croatian: spȉca — part of a wheel
• Sicilian: raju — part of a wheel
• Sicilian: raggiu — part of a wheel
• Slovak: spica — part of a wheel
• Slovak: špica — part of a wheel
• Slovene: napera — part of a wheel
• Spanish: rayo — part of a wheel
• Spanish: radio — part of a wheel
• Spanish: varilla — part of a wheel
• Spanish: ray — part of a wheel
• Swedish: eker — part of a wheel
• Tajik: парра (parra) — part of a wheel
• Thai: ซี่ล้อ — part of a wheel
• Thai: ซี่ (sîi) — part of a wheel
• Tocharian B: puwe — part of a wheel
• Turkish: tel — part of a wheel
• Turkish: parmak — part of a wheel
• Ottoman Turkish: پرمق (parmak) — part of a wheel
• Ukrainian: спи́ця (spýcja) — part of a wheel
• Ukrainian: шпи́ця (špýcja) — part of a wheel
• Uyghur: شادا (shada) — part of a wheel
• Uyghur: گۈگۈسۈن (gügüsün) — part of a wheel
• Uzbek: kegay — part of a wheel
• Vietnamese: nan hoa — part of a wheel
• Vietnamese: căm — part of a wheel
• Walloon: rai — part of a wheel
• Walloon: reyon — part of a wheel
• Welsh: adain — part of a wheel
• Welsh: ffon — part of a wheel
• Welsh: sbôc — part of a wheel
• German: einspeichen — Translations
• Spanish: radiar — Translations