tale
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Old English talu, related to Danish tale, German Zahl (“‘number’”), Dutch taal (language) and English talk.
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tale (plural tales)
- a type of story.
- the Canterbury Tales
- A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
- 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 5, Twelfth Century
- They proceeded with some rigour, these Custodiars; took written inventories, clapt-on seals, exacted everywhere strict tale and measure
- 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 5, Twelfth Century
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type of story
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tale
- Plural form of taal.
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- IPA: /taːlə/, [ˈtˢæːlə]
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tale c. (singular definite talen, plural indefinite taler)
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Inflection of “tale”
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tale (imperative tal, infinitive at tale, present tense taler, past tense talte, past participle har talt)
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tale
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Latin talis
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tale m and f (m and f plural tali)
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tale
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tale
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tale
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Inflection of tale
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tale (present tense taler; past tense talte; past participle talt; present participle talende; imperative tal)
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- IPA: [ˈta.le]
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tale