[spêd], st. f.: 1) luck, success: in comp. here-, wîg-spêd.—2) skill, facility: acc. sg. on spêd (skilfully), [874].

[spîwan], st. v., to spit, spew, w. instr.: inf. glêdum spîwan (spit fire), 2313

[spor], st. n., spur: in comp. hand-spor.

[spôwan], st. v., to speed well, help, avail: pret. sg. him wiht ne speów (availed him naught), [2855]; hû him ät æte speów (how he sped in the eating), [3027].

[spræc], st. f., speech, language: instr. sg. frêcnan spræce (through bold, challenging, discourse), [1105].—Comp.: æfen-, gylp-spræc.

[sprecan], st. v., to speak: inf. ic sceal forð sprecan gen ymbe Grendel (I shall go on speaking about G.), [2070]; w. acc. se þe wyle sôð sprecan (he who will speak the truth), [2865]; imper. tô Geátum sprec (spræc, MS.), [1172]; pret. sg. III. spräc, [1169], [1699], [2511], [2725]; word äfter spräc, [341]; nô ymbe þâ fæhðe spräc, [2619]; II. hwät þu worn fela ... ymb Brecan spræce (how much thou hast spoken of Breca!), [531]; pl. hwät wit geó spræcon (what we two spoke of before), [1477]; gomele ymb gôdne on-geador spræcon, þät big ... (the graybeards spoke together about the valiant one, that they ...), [1596]; swâ wit furðum spræcon (as we two spoke, engaged, before), [1708]; pret. part. þâ wäs ... þryð-word sprecen, [644].

ge-sprecan, w. acc., to speak: pret. sg. ge-spräc, [676], [1399], [1467], [3095].

[spreót], st. m., pole; spear, pike: in comp. eofor-spreót.

[springan], st. v., to jump, leap; flash: pret. sg. hrâ wîde sprong (the body bounded far), [1589]; swât ædrum sprong forð under fexe (the blood burst out in streams from under his hair), [2967]; pl. wîde sprungon hilde-leóman (flashed afar), [2583]. Also figuratively: blæd wîde sprang (his repute spread afar), [18].

ge-springan, to spring forth: pret. sg. swâ þät blôd ge-sprang (as the blood burst forth), [1668]. Figuratively, to arise, originate: pret. sg. Sigemunde gesprong äfter deáð-däge dôm un-lytel, [885].