Etymology

parle

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Today it means: Parley; talk. Full definition →

Middle English parlen ← Middle French parler ← Old French parler
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The story

  1. Late Latin · derived fromparabolō
  2. Old French · derived fromparler
  3. Middle French · derived fromparler
  4. Middle English · inherited fromparlen“to speak”
  5. English todayparle

Inherited from Middle English parlen (“to speak”), from Middle French parler, from Old French parler, from Late Latin parabolō.

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchparler all →

parley

Late Latinparabolō all →

parley

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.