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on-spreccan

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
on-spreccan, to enliven, to make sprack(?) [Sprack lively, active, Halliw. Dict.: Icel. sprækr active. ]
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  • Ðá wæs wæstnum áweaht world onspreaht (-spreht,

      MS.), Exon. Th. 353, 8; Reim. 9.
Etymology
[Cf.(?) ich sprechi in ham sprekes of lustes swa luðere ðæt ha forberneþ, Marh. 15, 21.]
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v.  spreccan.
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  • on-spreccan, v.