| Gael.S. | preig | mouth: organ of speech |
| Gael.S. | preigeadair | a gabby person, tale-bearer |
| Cymric | pregethur | preacher |
| Gallego | pregonero | sandpipers, 171 |
| Ital. | pregare | to pray, beg |
| Ital. | pregiare | to boast, evaluate, estimate |
| Gael.S. | preach | to croak, speak badly; preachaire a miserable orator |
| Gael.S. | preachan | Hooded Crow, 281; Buzzard, 211 |
| Engl. | preacher | preacher (not from Lat. praedicare; to preach is not "to predict"; cf. also praedicoð5.6.1.) |
| Franç. | prêcher | to preach |
| Franç.: Liège | précheu | maybug (a buzzing beetle) |
| Breton | prezeg | to speak, discourse |
| Franç.: Aoste | prédzé | to speak |
| Franç.: VS | prèdjè | id. |
| Franç. | priser | to estimate, cf. pregiare, above; secondarily prix, price: the estimated amount, see pretiumð5.6.1. |
| Engl. | praise | praise |
| Engl.: Scot. | sprose | to boast, brag |
| Franç.: Robertville | sproûsseler | to burst out laughing |
| Franç. | prose | discourse (certainly without relation to Lat. provertere "turn forward") |
| l. | prosa | discourse |
| Russian | prosit' | to request, sollicite (cf. pregare, above) |
| Sbc. | praska | crackling |
| Sbc. | praskavac | Olivaceous Warbler, 382 |
| Lith. | praSyti | to ask, beg |
| Nederl. | pracher | to beg |
| Engl. (slang) | prog | to beg ("orig. uncert.") |
| Engl.(o.liter.) | prokken | id. |
| Franç.rég. | proquer, praquer | to chatter |
| Engl. | prank | (nasal.) joke ("orig. uncert."). Semantically different from prank "to adorn in an ostentious manner" ð3.2.40. |
| Nederl.(o.liter.) | spreken, speken | to speak |
| Engl. | speak | to utter words |
| Germ.(h.Germ.) | sprehhan, spehhan | to prattle |
| Germ.reg. | spachheister | Magpie, 288 |
| Germ.reg. | spacht | chattering |
| Germ. | sprache | language; Starling, 293 |
| Germ.reg. | sprachmeister | Icterine Warbler, 381 |
| Germ.reg. | sprachmeista | Wren, 406 |
| Germ.(OHG) | sprahha | language |
| Alb. | spreh | I express |
| Germ.reg. | sprehe, spreie, spron | Starling, 293 |
| Franç.: wall. | sprohon et var. | Starling, 293 |
| Franç.(fauc.) | esproher | to cry |
| Ital.: Parme | sprona | (fourbesque) domestic hen, 2 |
| Franç.: Lesparre | esprehüme | tintamarre, FEW 23: 198 |
| Franç.arg. | schpromm, schproute | noise, FEW 23: 195 |
| Flemish | spreeuw | Starling, 293 |
| French: Belg. | sprèwe et var. | Starling, 293 |