tal

tal

1. woman

• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

• IPA^(key): [t̪al]

tal (plural taljo)

1. pigeon

Sadaf Munshi (2015), “Word Lists”, in Burushaski Language Documentation Project‎

From Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Occitan tal), from Latin tālis (compare French tel, Spanish tal).

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtal/

tal (masculine and feminine plural tals)

1. such (like this, that)

• com a tal
• tal i tal

tal

1. like that, in thay way

• per tal de
• per tal que

tal

1. anything, whatever

• “tal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

tal n

1. valley

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

tal

1. willow

From Old Norse tal.

• IPA^(key): /tal/, [tˢal]

tal n (singular definite tallet, plural indefinite tal)

1. number
2. figure
3. digit
4. numeral

See tale.

• IPA^(key): /taːl/, [tˢæːˀl]

tal

1. imperative of tale

• “tal” in Den Danske Ordbog

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• Rhymes: -ɑl

tal

1. (~ van) numerous, many, lots

   Je hebt tal van mogelijkheden - You have lots of possibilities

tal n (plural tallen)

1. number

Tal is almost never used to say 'number', getal and nummer are used instead.

• alt, lat

From Old Norse tal, from Proto-Germanic *talą.

• IPA^(key): /tʰɛaːl/
• Rhymes: -ɛaːl

tal n (genitive singular tals, plural tøl)

1. number
2. (grammar) number

From Old Norse tal, from Proto-Germanic *talą.

• IPA^(key): /tʰaːl/
• Rhymes: -aːl

tal n (genitive singular tals, nominative plural töl)

1. speech, talk, the act of talking
2. a conversation
3. count, number

   Mennirnir voru hundrað talsins.

   The men were a hundred all told.

• búktal
• vita ekki aura sinna tal (to wallow in money)
• taka engu tali (to be beyond description)
• berast í tal (to crop up in a conversation, to be mentioned)
• færa í tal (to bring something up)
• ná tali af (to get to talk to something)
• vera á tali (of a phone; to be engaged, to be busy)
• viðtal
• talsetja
• talsetning

• Rhymes: -al

tal

1. sour

tal

1. imperative of tale

From Old Norse tal

• IPA^(key): /tɑːl/

tal n (definite singular talet, indefinite plural tal, definite plural tala)

1. number, numeral

• dødstal
• folketal
• romartal
• talrik

• tall (Bokmål)

• “tal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

tal

1. Shortened form of tali

From Proto-Germanic *dalą, whence also Old English dæl, Old Norse dalr.

tal n or m

1. valley

• Middle High German: tal
  • Alemannic German: Tall
  • Central Franconian:

    Hunsrik: Daal

  • Bavarian:

    Mòcheno: tol

  • German: Tal
  • Luxembourgish: Dall
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Pennsylvania German: Daal

  • Yiddish: טאָל‎‎ (tol‎)

From Proto-Germanic *talą (“number, speech”). Cognate with Old English tæl, Old Saxon gital.

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑl/

tal n (genitive tals, plural tǫl)

1. a talk, parley, conversation
   • Ólafs saga Helga 87, in 1830, Þ. Guðmundsson, C. C. Rafn, Þ. Helgason, Fornmanna sögur, Volume IV. Copenhagen, page 196:

     […] kom hún enn til konúngs, ok sátu þau jarl öll samt á tali, […]

     […] but she came to the king, and yet sat all the jarls in talks, […]

2. speech, language
   • Stjórn 61, in 1862, C. R. Unger, Stjórn: gammelnorsk Bibelhistorie: fra Verdens Skabelse til det babyloniske Fangenskab. Christiania, page 204:

     Sneri hann þa nafni Josephs ok kalladi hann heimsins hialpara upp aa Egiptalandz tal ok tungu.

     He turned then, speaking Joseph's name and calling him home for help in speech and tongue of Egyptian lands.

3. a tale, number, enumeration
   • Barlaams Saga 137, in 1851, R. Keyser, C. R. Unger, Barlaams ok Josaphats saga. Christiania, page 133:

     Hon er oc i tale með oðrum himintunglum, […]

     She is in that number with other heavenly bodies, […]

4. (especially in compounds) a tale, list, series
   • Gulaþings-lög 301, in 1846, E. Hertzberg, Norges gamle love indtil 1387, Volume I. Christiania, page 99:

     […] þa ſkolo fara a þing oc bioða ſic i tal með oðrom monnom.

     […] then shall go to the Thing and enter the lists with other men.

• tal in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tal in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
• tal in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

Compare Classical Nahuatl tlālli (“land”)

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈtaːl/
• (Izalco) IPA^(key): /ˈtal/
• (Jicalapa) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɬʲ/

tāl (plural tālmet or tajtāl)

1. land, ground

   Tiktukat ne shupanmil keman ne tal waktuk

   For the rainy season, we plant the corn when the ground has dried up

2. earth, dirt, soil

   Tikwiwitat iwan tal pal tiktukat ka senkak

   We uproot it keeping some soil (on the roots) to plant it somewhere else

3. terrain, field, region, country

   Ashan ne Nawat semaya munutza tik ini tal

   Now Nawat (Pipil) is only spoken in this country

• IPA^(key): /tal/

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tal m inan

1. thallium (chemical element, Tl, atomic number 81)

From Old Portuguese tal, from Latin tālis, from Proto-Indo-European *tód (“demonstrative pronoun”). Displaced collateral form atal.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɫ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtaw/
• Hyphenation: tal
• Rhymes: -aw

tal

1. such

• e tal
• que tal

tal m, f (plural tais)

1. one

   Percebi que ele era o tal. ― I realised he was the one.

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:tal.

From Latin tālis. Compare French tel.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtal/, [ˈt̪al]

tal (plural tales)

1. such

• qué tal
• tal como
• tal vez
• y tal

• “tal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

From Old Swedish tal, from Old Norse tal, from Proto-Germanic *talą.

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tal n

1. (mathematics) number

   reellt tal

   real number

2. (school) An exercise involving calculations given to the pupil, especially at lower levels.

   Hur många tal fick ni i matteläxa idag?

   How many maths exercises did you have as homework today?

3. speech; the ability to use vocalizations to communicate
4. speech; a long oral message given publicly

• flyttal
• heltal
• medeltal
• otal
• tala
• talande
• talare
• talför
• talförmåga
• tungomålstalande
• tungotal

tal

1. willow

• (Zinacantán) IPA^(key): /tʰäl/

tal

1. (intransitive) to come

   ¿Bu likemot tal? - Where do you come from? (lit. where have you come?)

• (Zinacantán) yul

(Nouns)

• talel

• Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
• Laughlin, Robert M. [et al.] (1988) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Domingo Zinacantán, vol. I. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

• IPA^(key): /tal/

tal (feminine singular tal, plural tal)

1. tall

• byr

tal m (plural talau or taloedd)

1. end, edge
2. forehead, brow, eyebrow

• IPA^(key): /taːl/

tal m (plural taliadau)

1. Alternative spelling of tâl (“pay, payment”)

tal n (plural tallen)

1. number, amount

   Synonym: oantal

2. grammatical number

• iental

• “tal”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011