Translation
to chat, to chatter
Word origin
From French babiller, 'to prattle'. Like English babble and Italian babbolare it is imitative, formed on the ba-ba noise infants make, which is why so many unrelated languages hit on nearly the same word.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- babiller
- English cognates
- babble, babbling
Examples
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We chatted the whole evening.
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The children are chattering instead of working.
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I like chatting with my friends.
is the light, sociable end of talking: gossip over coffee rather than a speech. It is intransitive, so you chat someone and something. Online chat took the same root, which is why an Esperanto chat room is a o and instant messaging is .
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