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habla
f. (Noun) "speech"
12th cent. Old Spanish
fabla
. From Latin
fabula
'id.,' from
fari
"to talk" and instrumental sufix
-bula
(see
-ula
). Latin
fari
is from Proto-Italic *
fā-
"to talk." From Proto-Indo-European *
b
h
eh
2
-
'id.'