withspeak

verb

1. To speak against; contradict.

   rare, transitive

   How may I withspeak the hostile word or find an answer to my foes?

Where it comes from

A revival of Middle English withspeken (“to speak against, contradict”), from Old English wiþsprecan (“to contradict, gainsay, revile”), from Proto-West Germanic *wiþisprekan, equivalent to with- + speak. Cognate with Old Frisian withspreka (“to disagree”), Saterland Frisian wierspreeke (“to contradict”), West Frisian wjersprekke (“to contradict”), Dutch weerspreken (“to contradict”), German widersprechen (“to contradict, gainsay”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry withspeak (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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