Talk

What “Talk” means

Verb

1. To communicate, usually by means of speech.
2. To discuss; to talk about.
3. To speak (a certain language).
4. Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.
5. To confess, especially implicating others.

Noun

1. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
2. A lecture.
3. Gossip; rumour.
4. A major topic of social discussion.
5. A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenage) child about a reality of life; in particular:

Where the word comes from

From Middle English talken, talkien, from Old English *tealcian (“to talk, chat”), from Proto-West Germanic *talkōn, from Proto-Germanic *talkōną (“to talk, chatter”), frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *talōną (“to count, recount, tell”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol-, *del- (“to aim, calculate, adjust, count”), equivalent to tell + -k. Cognates Cognate with Low German taalken (“to chatter, gossip, talk”). Related also to Bavarian zoin (“to pay”), Cimbrian zaln (“to pay”), Dutch talen (“to care, long; to speak; to say”), German zahlen (“to pay”), Mòcheno zoln (“to pay”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål tale (“to talk, speak”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Swedish tala (“to speak, talk”), Norwegian Nynorsk tala (“to speak, talk”); also Latin dolus (“deceit, deception, fraud, guile, treachery, trickery; malice; artifice, device, stratagem”), Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos, “deceit, trick; wiles; ba

From Middle English talk, talke (“conversation; discourse”), from the verb (see above).

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