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> Italian: sta parlando
> Spanish: está hablando
> Portuguese: esta falando
> Dutch: staat te praten
> Danish: står og taler
> Swedish: står och talar
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BTW, the transition from Romance (e)sta- to Dutch staa(n) ís odd if
it's a loan, since the connection in Romance times between the two
verbs would be exclusively historical, not semantic; however, if they
are both induced by a substrate, that substrate might be responsible
for having placed 'be' and 'stand' (or 'sit') within a 'short
semantic distance', cf. the many placenames in -st (from IE *sed- or
*st-) in the Nordwestblock area and Low German -sete "inhabitant
of ...".
Torsten