Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story. · A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration. · The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim. · 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.
From Middle English tale, from Old English talu (“tale, series, calculation”), from Proto-West Germanic *talu, from Proto-Germanic *talō (“calculation, number”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to reckon, count”). Cognate with West Frisian taal (“speech, language”), 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 δόλος (dólos, “wile, bait”), Albanian ndjell (“to lure”), Northern Kurdish til (“finger”), Old Armenian տող (toł, “row”). Related to tell, talk.
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- Inherited-form mentiontaleenm
- Inherited-form mentiontaluang · tale, series, calculation
- Inherited-form mention*talugmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*talōgem-pro · calculation, number
- Derivation mention*del-ine-pro · to reckon, count
- Cognate mentiontaalfy · speech, language
- Cognate mentiontaalnl · language, speech
- Cognate mentionZahlde · number, figure
- Cognate mentiontaleda · speech
- Cognate mentiontalais · speech, talk, discourse, number, figure
- Cognate mentiondolusla · guile, deceit, fraud
- Cognate mentionδόλοςgrc · wile, bait
- Cognate mentionndjellsq · to lure
- Cognate mentiontilkmr · finger
- Cognate mentionտողxcl · row
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