Wiktionary

tall

See also: Tall

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English tall, talle, tal (“seemly, becoming, handsome, good-looking, excellent, good, valiant, lively in speech, bold, great, large, big”), from Old English *tæl, ġetæl (“swift, ready, having mastery of”), from Proto-Germanic *talaz (“submissive, pliable, obedient”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol-, *del- (“to aim, calculate, adjust, reckon”).

Cognate with Scots tal (“high, lofty, tall”), Old Frisian tel (“swift”), Old Saxon gital (“quick”), Old High German gizal (“active, agile”), Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍄𐌰𐌻𐍃 (untals, “indocile, disobedient”).

The Oxford English Dictionary notes: "The sense development [of tall] is remarkable, but is paralleled more or less by that of other adjectives expressing estimation, such as buxom, canny, clean, clever, cunning, deft, elegant, handsome, pretty, proper; German klein, as compared with English clean, presents the antithesis to modern tall as compared to tall in early Middle English. It has been conjectured that in the sense 'high of stature' it is a different word, adopted from the Welsh tal in some sense; but the latter is, according to Professor Rhŷs, merely a 16th-century borrowing of the English word (in Owen Pughe's Dictionary erroneously mixed up with the genuine Welsh word tal (“end, brow, forehead”), with which it has no possible connection.)"[1]

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

tall (comparative taller, superlative tallest)

  1. (of a person) Having a vertical extent greater than the average. For example, somebody with a height of over 6 feet would generally be considered to be tall.
    Being tall is an advantage in basketball.
  2. (of a building, etc.) Having its top a long way up; having a great vertical (and often greater than horizontal) extent; high.
  3. (of a story) Hard to believe, such as a tall story or a tall tale.
  5. (chiefly US, of a cup of coffee) Smaller than grande, usually 8 ounces (~ 230 ml).
    Coordinate terms: grande, venti
  6. (obsolete) Obsequious; obedient.
  7. (obsolete) Seemly; suitable; fitting, becoming, comely; attractive, handsome.
  8. (obsolete) Bold; brave; courageous; valiant.
  9. (archaic) Fine; proper; admirable; great; excellent.

AntonymsEdit

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from tall

DescendantsEdit

  • → Welsh: tal

TranslationsEdit

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NounEdit

tall (plural talls)

  1. (possibly nonstandard) Someone or something that is tall.
    • 1912, George Francis Atkinson, Botany for High Schools, Henry Holt and Company:
      But in the second generation of hybrids (from seed of the first) talls and dwarfs were both present, and in the proportion of twelve talls to four dwarfs.
    • 2009, Arianne Cohen, The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life from on High, page 197:
      The industries that best accommodate talls are those that have faced personal injury lawsuits.
    • 2018 June 5, Chris Robinson, “Fremantle Dockers defender Alex Pearce faces fitness test on injured ankle”, in The West Australian‎[1]:
      Fremantle remains unsure about the status a pair of key talls ahead of a defining clash with Adelaide at Optus Stadium.
  2. A clothing size for taller people.
    Do you have this in a tall?
  3. A tall serving of a drink, especially one from Starbucks, which contains 12 ounces.

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Oxford English Dictionary T, p. 57.
  • tall at OneLook Dictionary Search

AlbanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Albanian *talna, related to Lithuanian tylù (“to become silent”), Old Irish tuilid (“to sleep”), Proto-Slavic *toliti (“to persuade, to make quiet”).[1]

VerbEdit

tall (first-person singular past tense talla, participle tallur)

  1. to laugh at
  2. to mock

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir (1998) Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 448

AragoneseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin talis.

PronounEdit

tall

  1. such

BretonEdit

AdjectiveEdit

tall

  1. Hard mutation of dall.

CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Back-formation from tallar.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

tall m (plural talls)

  1. cutting edge
  2. edge (of a page)
  3. cut, slice
  4. cutaway (of a guitar)
  5. (golf) cut

Further readingEdit

  • “tall” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

EstonianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

NounEdit

tall (genitive talle, partitive talle)

  1. lamb
DeclensionEdit
Declension of tall (type külm)
singular plural
nominative tall talled
genitive talle tallede
partitive talle talli / tallesid
illative talle / tallesse talledesse / tallisse
inessive talles talledes / tallis
elative tallest talledest / tallist
allative tallele talledele / tallile
adessive tallel talledel / tallil
ablative tallelt talledelt / tallilt
translative talleks talledeks / talliks
terminative talleni talledeni
essive tallena talledena
abessive talleta talledeta
comitative tallega talledega

Note: the short plural forms from illative onward are almost never used.

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

tall (genitive talli, partitive talli)

  1. horse stable
DeclensionEdit
Declension of tall (type riik)
singular plural
nominative tall tallid
genitive talli tallide
partitive talli talle / tallisid
illative talli / tallisse tallidesse / tallesse
inessive tallis tallides / talles
elative tallist tallidest / tallest
allative tallile tallidele / tallele
adessive tallil tallidel / tallel
ablative tallilt tallidelt / tallelt
translative talliks tallideks / talleks
terminative tallini tallideni
essive tallina tallidena
abessive tallita tallideta
comitative talliga tallidega

Norwegian BokmålEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse tal (“talk, speech, number”), from Proto-Germanic *talą (“number, speech”).

NounEdit

tall n (definite singular tallet, indefinite plural tall, definite plural talla or tallene)

  1. number, numeral, figure

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from tall

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

NounEdit

tall f (definite singular talla or talli, indefinite plural taller, definite plural tallene)

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of toll

Old IrishEdit

AdverbEdit

tall

  1. there
    Is bec ndi dechur fil etarru siu ⁊ tall. ― There is little difference between them here and there.
  2. then
    amal du·ratsat sacaird tall bendachta forsin popul ― as the priests had blessed the people then

DescendantsEdit

DeterminerEdit

tall

  1. that (used after the noun, which is preceded by the definite article)
    a tadall tall ― that visit

SynonymsEdit

SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse þǫll. Cognate with Jamtish toll, Icelandic þöll.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

tall c

  1. pine, Scots pine tree, Pinus sylvestris

DeclensionEdit

Declension of tall 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tall tallen tallar tallarna
Genitive talls tallens tallars tallarnas

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