spá

• IPA^(key): /spauː/

  Rhymes: -auː

From Old Norse spá (“to foretell, prophesy”), from Proto-Germanic *spahōną, *spēhōną (“to observe”), from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ- (“to look”). Cognate to Scots spae.

spá f (genitive singular spár, nominative plural spár)

1. a prophecy

   Synonym: spádómur

2. (medicine) a prognosis (a forecast of the future course of a disease or disorder, based on medical knowledge)

   Synonym: horfur

3. a weather forecast

   Synonym: veðurspá

• stjörnuspá (“horoscope”)

spá (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative spáði, supine spáð)

1. to forecast, to predict [with dative]

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• spá fyrir (“to tell someone's fortune”)
• spá í lófa (“to read someone's palm”)
• spá í

• spǫ́

From late Proto-Norse ᛋᛒᛡ (sbᴀ), earlier *ᛊᛈᚨᚺᚢ (*spahu), from Proto-Germanic *spahō.

spá f (genitive spár)

2. a prophecy

   Synonym: spádómr

   sjaldan hafa spár mínar átt langan aldr

   my prophecies rarely take a long time to come true

• spádómr (“prophecy”)
• Vǫluspá (“the first poem of the Poetic Edda”)

• Icelandic: spá

From Proto-Germanic *spahōną, *spehōną.

spá (singular past indicative spáði, plural past indicative spáðu, past participle spáðr)

2. to prophesy, to foretell [with dative ‘to someone’, along with accusative or genitive ‘something’]

• Icelandic: spá
• Faroese: spáa
• Norwegian Nynorsk: spå
• Old Swedish: spā
  • Swedish: spå
• Old Danish: spaa
  • Danish: spå
• → Northern Middle English: spa
  • Scots: spae, spay
    • → English: spae

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “spá”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 397; also available at the Internet Archive