speight
speight · speights
A woodpeckerA woodpecker.
/speɪt/
Meaning
1 senses(dialectal, obsolete)A woodpecker.
Origin
From late Northern Middle English specht (“woodpecker”), from Old English *spiht, *speoht,From late Northern Middle English specht (“woodpecker”), from Old English *spiht, *speoht, from Proto-West Germanic *spiht, *speht, from Proto-Germanic *spihtaz, *spehtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“a kind of bird, woodpecker, magpie”).
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