Discussion
The word 'Parliament' is derived from the ______ word 'Parle' which means to talk.
Answer: A
The word Parliament comes from the French word parler or parle, meaning to talk, option A.
It is not from Latin, Greek or Spanish, although the Latin parabolare is the distant root.
The French word parlement, from the verb parler, to speak, gave the English word, which was first used for assemblies in the thirteenth century. The word came into English through Anglo-Norman after the Norman conquest, and it is for that reason that the French source is accepted in the key.
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