Also,
Latin, CO = with
Latin, Lectio == choose, lection, reading (aloud)

so, "speak with" (collect)

Oh, this is cool too...
Latin "e" -- out of, from

: )

Perhaps because you had to gather (ie, collect)
people together in order to give your speech,
tell your story, deliver the news, etc?
.....
"to have originally meant "to collect" and "to speak". No one knows why this root bears these two seemingly unrelated meanings
"

Quid pro Quo

comes to mind...

Don't overlook,
Latin,
teneo, tenere, tenant

(or something like that -- my latin is rusty)

Like lucre too? "filthy lucre" -- shiny coins ?

And one who wears the diadem
sits upon a dais... is it related?

Is OK related to the
word, "okie-dokie" -