tale

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[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle English, from Old English talu (“tale, series, calculation, list, statement, deposition, relation, communication, narrative, fable, story, accusation, action at law”), from Proto-Germanic *talō (“calculation, number”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to reckon, count”). Cognate with Dutch taal (“language, speech”), German Zahl (“number, figure”), Danish tale (“speech”), Icelandic tala (“speech, talk, discourse, number, figure”), Latin dolus (“guile, deceit, fraud”), Ancient Greek  (dólos, “wile, bait”), Old Armenian տող (toł, “row”). Related to tell, talk.

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tale (plural tales)

  1. (obsolete) Number.
  2. (obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.
  3. (obsolete) Speech; language.
  4. (obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
  5. (law, obsolete) A count; declaration.
  6. (rare or archaic) Numbering; enumeration; reckoning; account; count.
    Both number twice a day the milky dams; And once she takes the tale of all the lambs. ― Dryden.
  7. (rare or archaic) A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
  8. (rare or archaic) A report of any matter; a relation; a version.
  9. An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.
    Don't tell tales!
  10. a type of story.
    the Canterbury Tales
  11. 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
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type of story
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[edit] Etymology 2

From Middle English talen, from Old English talian (“to count, calculate, reckon, account, consider, think, esteem, value, argue, tell, relate, impute, assign”), from Proto-Germanic *talōnan (“to count”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to count, reckon, aim, calculate, adjust”). Cognate with German zählen (“to count, number, reckon”), Swedish tala (“to speak, talk”), Icelandic tala (“to talk”).

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tale (third-person singular simple present tales, present participle taling, simple past and past participle taled)

  1. (dialectal or obsolete) To speak; discourse; tell tales.
  2. (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.

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tale

  1. Plural form of taal.

[edit] Danish

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From Old Norse tala

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  • IPA: /taːlə/, [ˈtˢæːlə]

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tale c. (singular definite talen, plural indefinite taler)

  1. speech, talk, address, discourse

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    Inflection of tale
common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative tale talen taler talerne
genitive tales talens talers talernes

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tale (imperative tal, infinitive at tale, present tense taler, past tense talte, past participle har talt)

  1. To make a speech
  2. speak, talk

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tale

  1. first-person singular present indicative of taler
  2. third-person singular present indicative of taler
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of taler
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of taler
  5. second-person singular imperative of taler

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tale

  1. hence

[edit] Italian

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From Latin tālis.

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tale m. and f. (m and f plural tali)

  1. such

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tale

  1. happiness

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tāle

  1. vocative singular of tālus

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tale

  1. languages

[edit] Middle Dutch

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From Old Dutch *tala, from Proto-Germanic *talō.

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tale f.

  1. spoken or written words, that which someone says
  2. language

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tale

  1. Speech, talk, address, discourse

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    Inflection of tale
indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural
Bokmål m tale talen taler talene
Nynorsk m tale talen talar talane
Nynorsk f tale [tala] tala taler [talor] talene [talone]

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tale (present tense taler; past tense talte; past participle talt; present participle talende; imperative tal)

  1. To make a speech
  2. Speak, talk

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  • IPA: [ˈta.le]

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tale

  1. feminine plural form of tău
    fiicele tale îmi spuneau despre casa voastră nouă
    your daughters were telling me about your new house.
  2. neuter plural form of tău

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tale (infinitive talar)

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of talar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of talar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of talar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of talar.
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