spae

• spay, spey

Borrowed from Scots spae.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /speɪ/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /spe/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

spae (third-person singular simple present spaes, present participle spaeing, simple past and past participle spaed)

1. (Scotland, archaic) To divine; foretell.
   • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 242:

     A mermaid from the water rose,
     And spaed Sir Sinclair ill.

• pase, SEPA, Peas, Paes, PEAs, peas, APEs, Sepa, apse, EAPs, EPAs, apes, PESA

• spay

From Northern Middle English spā, from Old Norse spá (“to foretell, prophesy”), from Proto-Germanic *spahōną, *spehōną (“to observe”), from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- (“to look”). Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål spå.

• IPA^(key): [spe]
• (Insular Scots) IPA^(key): [spoː]

spae (third-person singular simple present spaes, present participle spaein, simple past and past participle spaed)

1. to prophesy, foretell, predict, tell fortunes
2. to anticipate, wish, have ambitions for

• → English: spae