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talk

verb
/tɔːk/UK/tʰoːk//tɔk/US/tɒk/CA

Etymology

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; bait”), Armenian տող (toġ, “line (in a text)”). More at tale. Despite the surface similarity, unrelated to Proto-Indo-European *telkʷ- (“to talk”) (due to Grimm's law), which is the source of loquacious.

  1. derived from *dol-✻
  2. derived from *talōną✻ — “to count, recount, tell”
  3. inherited from *talkōną✻ — “to talk, chatter”
  4. inherited from *talkōn✻
  5. inherited from *tealcian✻ — “to talk, chat”
  6. inherited from talken

Definitions

  1. To communicate, usually by means of speech.

    • Let's sit down and talk.
    • Although I don't speak Chinese, I managed to talk with the villagers using signs and gestures.
    • I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you.

  2. To discuss

    To discuss; to talk about.

    • They sat down to talk business.
    • That's enough about work, let's talk holidays!

  3. To speak (a certain language).

    • We talk French sometimes.
  4. ›+ 13 more definitions

    1. Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.

      • Are you interested in the job? They're talking big money.
      • We're not talking rocket science here: it should be easy.

    2. To confess, especially implicating others.

      • Suppose he talks?
      • She can be relied upon not to talk.
      • They tried to make me talk.

    3. To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.

      • I am not the one to talk.
      • She is a fine one to talk.
      • You should talk.

    4. To gossip

      To gossip; to create scandal.

      • People will talk.
      • Aren't you afraid the neighbours will talk?

    5. To manifest outwardly in speech, as opposed to reality or action.

      • Remember that Christ and Christianity may not always be the same thing; e.g. Jerry Falwell talks "Christianity" but practices hatred […] which is diametrically opposed to what Jesus really taught.

    6. To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or…

      To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner.

      • That's not like you at all, Jared. The drugs are talking. Snap out of it!

    7. A conversation or discussion

      A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.

      • We need to have a talk about your homework.

    8. A lecture.

      • There is a talk on Shakespeare tonight.

    9. Gossip

      Gossip; rumour.

      • There's been talk lately about the two of them.

    10. A major topic of social discussion.

      • She is the talk of the day.
      • The musical is the talk of the town.

    11. A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenage) child…

      A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenage) child about a reality of life; in particular:

      • Have you had the talk with Jay yet? I found a condom in his room.

    12. Empty boasting, promises or claims.

      • The party leader's speech was all talk.

    13. Meeting to discuss a particular matter.

      • The leaders of the G8 nations are currently in talks over nuclear weapons.

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Derived

all talk and trousers, backtalk, bad-talk, betalk, crazy talk, double-talk, fast-talk, hark who's talking, I don't want to talk about it, if these walls could talk, intertalk, knock-and-talk, like talking to a brick wall, like talking to a wall, look who's talking, mistalk, nontalking, now you're talking, one to talk, on talking terms, outtalk, overtalk, press-to-talk, push-to-talk, shit-talking, sleeptalk, sleep-talk, smooth talk, smooth talking, smooth-talking, sweet-talk, talk a big game, talkable, talk a blue streak, talk about, talk about the weather, talk against time, talk a good game, talkaholic, talkaholism · +202 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at talk. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at talk. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at talk

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA