hablar
/aˈblaɾ/ · A1 · verb
to talk
💬 hablar = Latin fabulari, to tell fables; the f- wore down to a silent h
Latin fabulari (to chat, tell tales) gave English fable and fabulous. Old Spanish turned initial f- into h-, then stopped pronouncing it: fabular became hablar. The same shift made hacer from facere and hijo from filius.