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Re: R: R: [romanceconlang] About semantic shifts in Romance langs

romanceconlang@hidden.email writes:
>I don't know about tale > talk (I don't think they are directly related).
>I
>only meant that the shift tale -> talk is quite common, AFA I have seen up
>to now.

Here's what my dictionary says of the English word:

[ME talk(i)en, deriv. (with -k suffix) of TALE; c. EFris talken]

So, apparently in English it also comes from tale as well.

notes:

ME - Middle English
EFris - East Frisian
c. - cognate with 


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