From: Barry Garcia (barry_garcia@monterey.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 23 2001 - 01:05:01 EST
romanceconlang@egroups.com 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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Cesar Javier Jaime Garcia
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