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upspeaker

noun

Etymology

From upspeak + -er.

  1. inherited from *bʰeh₂g-✻ — “to distribute”
  2. inherited from *spekan✻
  3. derived from *spreg-✻ — “to make a sound, utter, speak”
  4. inherited from *sprekaną✻ — “to speak, make a sound”
  5. inherited from *sprekan✻
  6. inherited from specan — “to speak”
  7. inherited from speke
  8. prefixed as upspeak — “up + speak”
  9. suffixed as upspeaker — “upspeak + er”

Definitions

  1. One who speaks up

    One who speaks up; an advocate.

  2. One who speaks with upspeak, or the raising of intonation at the end of statements.

    • The upspeak rule is applied non-systematically, i.e. upspeakers do not convert all RP falling tones to rising tones, even where the structural conditions for the operation of the rule are fulfilled.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for upspeaker. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA