different between language vs tale

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?ng?gw?j, IPA^(key): /?læ??w?d??/
  • (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): (see /æ/ raising) [?le???w?d??]
• Hyphenation: lan?guage

Etymology 1

From Middle English langage, language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *lingu?ticum, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn???wéh?s (“tongue, speech, language”). Displaced native Old English ?eþ?ode.

Noun

language (countable and uncountable, plural languages)

1. (countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
   • 1867, Report on the Systems of Deaf-Mute Instruction pursued in Europe, quoted in 1983 in History of the College for the Deaf, 1857-1907 ?ISBN, page 240:

     Hence the natural language of the mute is, in schools of this class, suppressed as soon and as far as possible, and its existence as a language, capable of being made the reliable and precise vehicle for the widest range of thought, is ignored.
2. (uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.

3. (uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 35:

     And ‘blubbing’... Blubbing went out with ‘decent’ and ‘ripping’. Mind you, not a bad new language to start up. Nineteen-twenties schoolboy slang could be due for a revival.

4. (countable, uncountable, figuratively) The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
   • 2001, Eugene C. Kennedy, Sara C. Charles, On Becoming a Counselor ?ISBN:

     A tale about themselves [is] told by people with help from the universal languages of their eyes, their hands, and even their shirting feet.
5. (countable, uncountable) A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
   • 1983, The Listener, volume 110, page 14:

     A more likely hypothesis was that the attacked leaves were transmitting some airborne chemical signal to sound the alarm, rather like insects sending out warnings […] But this is the first time that a plant-to-plant language has been detected.

   • 2009, Animals in Translation, page 274:

     Prairie dogs use their language to refer to real dangers in the real world, so it definitely has meaning.

6. (computing, countable) A computer language; a machine language.
   • 2015, Kent D. Lee, Foundations of Programming Languages ?ISBN, page 94

     In fact pointers are called references in these languages to distinguish them from pointers in languages like C and C++.

7. (uncountable) Manner of expression.
   • 1782, William Cowper, Hope

     Their language simple, as their manners meek, […]

8. (uncountable) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.

9. (uncountable) Profanity.

Synonyms

• (form of communication): see Thesaurus:language
• (vocabulary of a particular field): see Thesaurus:jargon
• (computer language): computer language, programming language, machine language
• (particular words used): see Thesaurus:wording

Hypernyms

• medium

Hyponyms

• See Category:en:Languages

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

language (third-person singular simple present languages, present participle languaging, simple past and past participle languaged)

1. (rare, now nonstandard or technical) To communicate by language; to express in language.

   • Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense.

See also

• bilingual
• lexis
• linguistics
• multilingual
• term
• trilingual
• word

Etymology 2

Alteration of languet.

Noun

language (plural languages)

1. A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.

References

• language at OneLook Dictionary Search
• language in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• language in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Noun

language m (plural languages)

1. Archaic spelling of langage.

Middle English

Noun

language (plural languages)

1. Alternative form of langage

Middle French

Alternative forms

• langage
• langaige
• languaige

Etymology

From Old French language.

Noun

language m (plural languages)

1. language (style of communicating)

Related terms

• langue

Descendants

• French: langage
  • Haitian Creole: langaj
    • ? English: langaj
  • Mauritian Creole: langaz

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *lingu?ticum, from Classical Latin lingua (“tongue, language”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lan??ad???/

Noun

language f (oblique plural languages, nominative singular language, nominative plural languages)

1. language (style of communicating)

Related terms

• langue, lingue

Descendants

• ? Middle English: language
  • English: language
• Middle French: language
  • French: langage
    • Haitian Creole: langaj
      • ? English: langaj
    • Mauritian Creole: langaz
• ? Old Spanish: lenguage

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?te?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l
• Homophone: tail

Etymology 1

From Middle English tale, from Old English talu (“tale, series, calculation, list, statement, deposition, relation, communication, narrative, fable, story, accusation, action at law”), from Proto-West Germanic *talu, from Proto-Germanic *tal? (“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 ????? (dólos, “wile, bait”), Albanian ndjell (“to lure”), Northern Kurdish til (“finger”), Old Armenian ??? (to?, “row”). Related to tell, talk.

Noun

tale (plural tales)

1. 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.

2. A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
   • 1631, John Milton, "L'Allegro":

     And every shepherd tells his tale

     Under the hawthorn in the dale.
3. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, Book I, Preface, §4:

     the ignorant, […] who measure by tale, and not by weight

   • 1602, Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall

     In packing, they keep a just tale of the number that every hogshead containeth ...

   • 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

4. (slang) The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim.
5. (obsolete) Number; tally; quota.
   • 1611, King James Version, Exodus 5:8:

     And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

   • 1697, John Dryden, The Works of Virgil, Pastoral III:

     Both number twice a day the milky dams

     And once she takes the tale of all the lambs.

6. (obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.
7. (obsolete) Speech; language.
8. (obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
9. (law, obsolete) A count; declaration.
10. (rare or archaic) A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
11. (rare or archaic) A report of any matter; a relation; a version.
    • 1605, Francis Bacon, Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human, Volume I, Chapter IX:

      […] birds […] are aptest by their voice to tell tales what they find; and likewise by the motion of their flight to express the same.

Derived terms

Translations

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 *tal?n? (“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”).

Verb

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.

Derived terms

• taler

Etymology 3

Noun

tale (plural tales)

1. Alternative form of tael

Anagrams

• EATL, ETLA, Elta, LATE, TEAL, TEAl, Teal, et al, et al., late, leat, tael, teal, tela

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??l?/

Noun

tale

1. plural of taal

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse tala

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?æ?l?]

Noun

tale c (singular definite talen, plural indefinite taler)

1. speech, talk, address, discourse

Inflection

Verb

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

1. to make a speech
2. to speak, talk

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?.l?/
• Hyphenation: ta?le

Noun

tale f (plural talen, diminutive taaltje n)

1. Obsolete form of taal.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tal/

Verb

tale

1. inflection of taler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative
   2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• étal

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tale/

Adverb

tale

1. hence

Italian

Etymology

From Latin t?lis.

Adjective

tale (plural tali)

1. such

Related terms

Anagrams

• alte, tela, late

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ta?.le/, [?t?ä????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ta.le/, [?t???l?]

Adjective

t?le

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of t?lis

Noun

t?le

1. vocative singular of t?lus

References

• tale in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Limburgish

Noun

tale f

1. languages

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *tala, from Proto-West Germanic *talu, from Proto-Germanic *tal?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?l?/

Noun

t?le f

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

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Further reading

• “tale (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “tale (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle English

Alternative forms

• tal, talle
• taile, taille (chiefly Northern ME)

Etymology

From Old English talu, from Proto-West Germanic *talu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?l(?)/, /?tal(?)/

Noun

tale (plural tales)

1. personal narrative, account

Descendants

• English: tale
• Yola: taale

References

• “t??le, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Northern Kurdish

Noun

tale ?

1. happiness

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse tala.

Noun

tale m (definite singular talen, indefinite plural taler, definite plural talene)

1. speech, talk, address, discourse

Derived terms

Verb

tale (imperative tal, present tense taler, passive tales, simple past talte, past participle talt, present participle talende)

1. to make a speech
2. to speak, talk

Derived terms

References

• “tale” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse tala

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²t??l?/

Noun

tale m (definite singular talen, indefinite plural talar, definite plural talane)
tale f (definite singular tala, indefinite plural taler, definite plural talene)

1. speech
2. a speech, talk, discourse, an address

Derived terms

Verb

tale (present tense talar or taler, past tense tala or talte, past participle tala or talt, passive infinitive talast, present participle talande, imperative tal)

1. alternative form of tala

Derived terms

References

• “tale” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ta.le]

Pronoun

tale

1. feminine plural of t?u

2. neuter plural of t?u

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tale/, [?t?a.le]

Verb

tale

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.