spearca

Old English

Alternative forms

• spærca

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sparkō, from Proto-Germanic *sprakô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspæ͜ɑr.kɑ/, [ˈspæ͜ɑrˠ.kɑ]

Noun

spearca m

1. (literal or figurative) a spark

   Synonyms: *funca, fȳrgnāst, *gnāst, ysel, ysle

Declension

Declension of spearca (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	spearca	spearcan
accusative	spearcan	spearcan
genitive	spearcan	spearcena
dative	spearcan	spearcum

Derived terms

• fȳrspearca
• spearcian
• spierċan
  • ⇒ Old English: forspierċan

Descendants

• Middle English: sparke, sparc, sparck, spark, sperk, sperke
  • English: spark (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: spark, sperk

Verb

spearca

1. second-person singular imperative of spearcian

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “SPEARCA”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.