Talk

Morpheme

Talk

Type

free base

Denotation

speak, discourse

Etymology

Middle English talken, from tale + -k

Evidence

crosstalk, talk, talkative, talkatively, talkback, talked, talker, talkie, talking, talks, talksome, talky, untalkative, uptalk

Notes

retains the intensive or frequentative -k suffix

See Also

Tale, Tell, Told