talaje

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish talaje, from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl tlālāxin, from tlālli (“earth”) +‎ āxin.

Noun

talaje (plural talajes)

1. a kind of tick (Ornithodoros talaje)

Translations

Translations

• Cuicatec:

  Tepeuxila Cuicatec: ꞌi⁴cui³

• Kaqchikel: chut
• Mixe:

  Totontepec Mixe: piꞌc mootsc xiijy

• Nahuatl:

  Classical Nahuatl: tlālāxin

  Highland Puebla Nahuatl: ta̱la̱xi̱n

  Northern Puebla Nahuatl: tlalaxtli

  Tetelcingo Nahuatl: tlölöxa

• Popoloca:

  San Juan Atzingo Popoloca: cotsꞌe

• Popoluca:

  Oluta Popoluca: na̱s̈-u̱ji

  Sayula Popoluca: na̱s̈nanc

• Spanish: talaje (es)
• Totonac:

  Xicotepec de Juárez Totonac: chinche

• Zapotec:

  Isthmus Zapotec: bidi

  Yatzachi Zapotec: biꞌoyo

• Zoque:

  Copainalá Zoque: endzi

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈlaxe/ [t̪aˈla.xe]
• Rhymes: -axe
• Syllabification: ta‧la‧je

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Spanish talar

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātus

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icus

Latin -āticus

Latin -āticum

Old French -agebor.

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Latin -āticum

Old Occitan -atgebor.

Spanish -aje

Spanish talaje

From talar (“fell (trees)”) + -aje (“-age”).

Noun

talaje m (plural talajes)

1. (Chile) grazing
2. (Chile) fee paid for the right to graze on another's land

Etymology 2

Borrowed from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl tlālāxin, from tlālli (“earth”) +‎ āxin.

Alternative forms

• tlalaje, clalaje

Noun

talaje m (plural talajes)

1. talaje (parasite)

References

• Schoenhals, Louise C. (1988), A Spanish - English Glossary of Mexican Flora and Fauna‎^[1], Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 228

Further reading

• “talaje”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025