parle
According to a Westminster tour guide and the world wide words website:
Our parliament comes from the old French parlement, which at first meant only a “talk, consultation, conference†(it derives from the same French word parler, “to speak†as parlance, parley and parlour, the last of which, etymologically, is a “room set aside for conversationâ€). Later parlement evolved to the sense “formal consultative body†and so to “legislative bodyâ€.
Now that was interesting, wasn’t it?
