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Speke

UK/spiːk/ uncommon obsolete

noun

1.

English explorer who with Sir Richard Burton was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika; he also discovered Lake Victoria and named it (1827-1864)

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Origin

* As an English surname, variant of Speak, itself a variant of Speake, all related to the placename below. * The placename is either from Old English spec (“brushwood”) or the obsolete noun speight (“woodpecker”).

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