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

Inherited from Old Catalan tal, from Latin tālis. Compare Occitan tal, French tel, Spanish tal.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtal]

tal m or f (masculine and feminine plural tals)

1. such (like this, that)

   Synonym: semblant

• aital (obsolete)

tal

1. like that, in that way

• per tal de
• per tal que
• tal com

tal

1. anything, whatever

• “tal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “tal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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. you

tal

1. willow

From Old Norse tal, from Proto-Germanic *talą (“number”), cognate with Norwegian Bokmål tall, Swedish tal, Dutch tal.

• IPA^(key): /tal/, [ˈtˢal]

tal n (singular definite tallet, plural indefinite tal)

1. number
2. figure
3. digit
4. numeral
5. (after a multiple of 100) Denoting a century.

   Han levede i 1800-tallet.

   He lived in the 19th century.

• “tal” in Den Danske Ordbog

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /taːˀl/, [ˈtˢæˀl]

tal

1. imperative of tale

From Middle Dutch tal, from Old Dutch *tal, from Proto-West Germanic *tal, from Proto-Germanic *talą.

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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. a number
2. a quantity

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

• alt, lat

tal

1. land

tal

1. to come

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

Declension of tal
n5	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tal	talið	tøl	tølini
accusative	tal	talið	tøl	tølini
dative	tali	talinum	tølum	tølunum
genitive	tals	talsins	tala	talanna

From Old Galician-Portuguese tal, from Latin talis.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtal]

tal

1. such

   Nunca tal vin ― I've never seen such [a thing]

• talmente

tal m or f (plural tales)

1. such

   Nunca tal cousa vin ― I've never seen such a thing

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “tal”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tal”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tal”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tal”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tal”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

tal

1. land

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

tal (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of tale

Root
t-w-l
9 terms

From Arabic طَالَ (ṭāla).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaːl/

tal (imperfect jtul, past participle mitul, verbal noun tul)

1. to become long, to become prolonged, to last

   Synonym: dam

Conjugation of tal
		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
perfect	m	talt	talt	tal		talna	taltu	talu
	f			talet
imperfect	m	ntul	ttul	jtul		ntulu	ttulu	jtulu
	f			ttul
imperative			tul				tulu

• IPA^(key): /tāl/

tal

1. sun

• Blench, Robert; Bulkaam, Michael (2021) An Introduction to Mantsi, a South Bauchi language of Central Nigeria. University of Cambridge.

• Rhymes: -al

tal

1. sour

tal

1. imperative of tale

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

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by tall

From Old Norse tal.

• IPA^(key): [tʰɐ̞ːl], [tʰɐ̞ːɽ]

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.

From Proto-West Germanic *tālu, from Proto-Germanic *tēlō (“deception, deceit, persecution”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to take aim, calculate, damage, count”). Cognate with Latin dolus (“deception, strategem, trap”).

• IPA^(key): /tɑːl/

tāl f

1. evil-speaking, calumny, disparagement, slander
2. (religious) blasphemy
3. reproach
4. scorn, derision, mocking

Strong ō-stem:

• tǣlan

• tǣl
• *tǣle
• tǣlnes

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
  • German: Tal
  • Hunsrik: Daal
  • Luxembourgish: Dall
  • Mòcheno: tol
  • 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

Compare Classical Nahuatl tlālli (“land”).

tal

1. land

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• IPA^(key): /ˈtal/

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• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: tal

tal m inan

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

• tal in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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

• Homophone: tau (Brazil)
• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: tal

tal m or f (plural tais)

1. such

• e tal
• que tal

tal m or f by sense (plural tais)

1. one

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

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tal.

Borrowed from French thalle.

tal n (plural taluri)

1. thallus

• atal (obsolete)

Inherited from Latin tālis. Compare French tel.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtal/ [ˈt̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: tal

tal m or f (masculine and feminine plural tales)

1. such

   No hay tal cosa como los monstruos.

   There's no such thing as monsters.

tal m or f (masculine and feminine plural tales)

1. such

   Es la jefa, y es importante que la trates como tal.

   She's the boss, and it's important that you treat her as such.

• “tal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
• “tal” in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, segunda edición, Real Academia Española, 2023. →ISBN

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

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tal n

1. (mathematics) number

   Hyponyms: naturligt tal, heltal, rationellt tal, reellt tal, komplext tal, hyperkomplext tal, superreellt tal, bråktal, blandat tal, kardinaltal, defekt tal, perfekt tal, primtal, sammansatt tal, vänskapliga tal, ymnigt tal, algebraiskt tal, transcendent tal

   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 math exercises did you have as homework today?

3. speech; the ability to use vocalizations to communicate
4. speech; a long oral message given publicly
5. (as a suffix) around (for round numbers)

   ett 30-tal demonstranter

   around 30 protesters

6. (as a suffix, in the definite "talet") the specified decade, century, or (rarely) millennium

   åttiotalet / 80-talet

   the eighties

   nollnolltalet / 00-talet

   the 00s

   1890-talet

   the 1890s

   det sena 60-talet

   the late sixties

   artonhunradratalet / 1800-talet

   the nineteenth century

• tala
• tälja

• -årsåldern
• tvåtusental

• tal in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tal in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tal in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• lat, lat.

tal

1. willow

• (Zinacantán) IPA^(key): /tʰäl/

tal

1. (intransitive) to come

   ¿Bu likemot tal?

   Where do you come from?

   (literally, “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.

Early modern borrowing of English tall

• IPA^(key): /tal/

tal (feminine singular tal, plural talion, equative taled, comparative talach, superlative talaf)

1. tall

• byr

• taldra

Proto-Celtic *talos, from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“ground, bottom”). Compare Irish talamh, Latin tellūs, Sanskrit तल (tala).

• tâl

• IPA^(key): /taːl/

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”)

Probably ultimately related to taal (“language”), which see. Cognate with Dutch tal, English tale, German Zahl.

• IPA^(key): /tɔl/

tal n (plural tallen)

1. number, amount

   Synonym: oantal

2. (grammar) grammatical number

• iental
• meartal

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

tal (intransitive)

1. Obsolete spelling of taal.