Dictionary verb aus verb *spere- sprechen aussprechen
(aus verb)

Meanings

1.
to pronounce
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2.
to utter, to say (out loud)
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3.
to have a heart to heart talk
("sich+Acc aussprechen" - usually after a heavy argument)
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Word Family

Root: *spere-

The core idea of the root (according to English sources) was:

ankle

German sources have the meaning for focused on motion and describe it as

twitching with the foot, unrest

In German, it shifted toward a sense of tracking (by foot) and then kept going toward the sense of perceiving.

English doesn’t have many relatives – spur, spoor, spurn.
They haven’t shifted their meaning as much, so they’re still somewhat close to ankle or to a broad sense of twitching.

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