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Appendix I

Indo-European Roots
 
ENTRY:tolkw-
DEFINITION:To speak. Metathesized form *tlokw-. locution, loquacious; allocution, circumlocution, colloquium, colloquy, elocution, grandiloquence, interlocution, magniloquent, obloquy, prolocutor, soliloquy, ventriloquism, from Latin loqu, to speak. (Pokorny tolk- 1088.)
 
 
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