different between tale vs taler

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.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English taler, equivalent to tale +? -er.

Noun

taler (plural talers)

1. (archaic) A talker; a teller
   • 2000, Taimi Anne Olsen, Transcending Space:

     Earth writes from the point of view of " 'Baylor' the Taler of Behler the Failer" who tells Scheherazade's story (to Death, her "familiar stranger") of Somebody's last voyage.

   • 2007, Barbara A. Hanawalt, The Wealth of Wives:

     She had a series of aliases: “longa mariona wode alias Birde alias taler” [long Mariona Wode, alias Birdie, alias taler, perhaps tale teller].

Etymology 2

From German Taler, (older) Thaler. Doublet of dollar.

Alternative forms

• thaler

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?l?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??l?/

Noun

taler (plural talers)

2. (historical) Germanic unit of currency used between the 15th and 19th centuries.

Anagrams

• Alert, alert, alter, alter-, altre, artel, later, ratel, telar

Cebuano

Etymology

From the reverse spelling of the second syllable of bilat.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ta?ler

Noun

taler

1. the female genitalia; the vulva or vagina

Danish

Etymology 1

From tale (“to speak”) +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?l?r/, [?t?æ?l?]

Noun

taler c (singular definite taleren, plural indefinite talere)

1. speaker

Inflection

Etymology 2

See tale (“speech”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?l?r/, [?t?æ?l?]

Noun

taler c

1. indefinite plural of tale

Etymology 3

See tale (“to speak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?l?r/, [?t?æ??l?]

Verb

taler

1. present of tale

French

Etymology 1

From German Taler, (older) Thaler.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.l??/

Noun

taler m (plural talers)

1. taler (currency)

Etymology 2

From Frankish *t?l?n (“to tear away, rip off”), via Latin, compare Spanish talar, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *t?l? (“persecution, deceit”). Cognate with Old High German zâlôn (“to root up, remove”), Old English t?l (“reproof, calumny, mockery”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.le/

Verb

taler

1. (transitive) to damage (a fruit)

Conjugation

Further reading

• “taler” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French tout à l'heure

Adverb

taler

1. later

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From tale +? -er

Noun

taler m (definite singular taleren, indefinite plural talere, definite plural talerne)

1. a speaker (person who speaks, or who makes a speech)

Derived terms

• buktaler
• høyttaler

See also

• talar (Nynorsk)

References

• “taler” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology 2

Noun

taler m

1. indefinite plural of tale

Etymology 3

Verb

taler

1. present of tale

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• (of both) talar

Noun

taler m or f

1. indefinite feminine plural of tale

Verb

taler

1. present of tala
2. present of tale

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?tal?r/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?ta?l?r/, /?tal?r/

Verb

taler

1. (literary) subjunctive impersonal of talu
2. (literary) imperative impersonal of talu

Mutation