Meaning

noun plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson)

verb replay (as a melody)

verb speak at great length (about something)

originBorrowed from German Spiel (“game, performance”) or Yiddish שפּיל (shpil), both from Middle High German spil, from Old High German spil, from Proto-West Germanic *spil. Cognate with Old English spilian (“to revel, play”). See speel.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0