Etymograph

English

hyperspeech

Affixation of hyper- + speech.

Formed from hyper- + speech

Proto-Indo-European *úp

Proto-Indo-European *upér ‘over, above’

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’

English hyper-

Proto-Indo-European *spereg- ‘to make a sound’

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Proto-West Germanic *sprāku ‘speech, language’

Old English sprǣċ ‘speech, language’

Old English spǣċ ‘speech’

Middle English speche ‘speaking, speech’

English speech

Today it means

noun The form of a language a speaker uses when they want to speak clearly.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / hyperspeech