tale

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
2. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
3. (slang) The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim.
4. 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.
5. (obsolete) Number; tally; quota.
6. (obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.
7. (obsolete) Speech; language.
8. (obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
9. (obsolete) A count; declaration.
10. (archaic, rare) A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
11. (archaic, rare) A report of any matter; a relation; a version.

Verb

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

Conceptes

conte

història

narrativa

conte fabulós

falòrnia

bola

trola

falórnia

mentida

relació

Sinònims

story

narrative

legend

fable

account

fairy tale

narration

history

news

📰

myth

anecdote

yarn

🧶

fib

fiction

episode

report

happening

description

event

tell a story

occurrence

tarradiddle

taradiddle

recital

message

narrate

parable

proverb

recounting

relate

relation

relationship

riddle

saga

short story

song

🎶

speech

talk

🗣️

tell

theater

theatre

tittle-tattle

understanding

verb

version

word

romance

talebearing

tall tale

novelet

Traduccions

conte

cuento

Erzählung

Geschichte

racconto

histoire

storia

Märchen

récit

verhaal

historia

vertelsel

conto

vertelling

favola

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈteɪl/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: tale

Heretat de anglès antic: talu

Cognat amb frisó occidental: taal

Cognat amb neerlandès: taal

Cognat amb alemany: Zahl

Cognat amb danès: tale

Cognat amb islandès: tala

Cognat amb llatí: dolus

Cognat amb grec antic: δόλος

Cognat amb albanès: ndjell

Cognat amb Northern Kurdish: til

Cognat amb Classical Armenian: տող

In summary

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.