| 1 | Old Norse | tal | a talk, parley, conversation; speech, language; a... |
| 2 | Proto-Germanic | talą | speech; number |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | dol- | reckoning, calculation, fraud; calculation, fraud |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | del- | to aim, calculate, adjust, count; to reckon,... |