tala

• Rhymes: -ɑːlə

Borrowed from Samoan tālā, in turn from English dollar.

tala (plural talas)

1. The currency of Samoa, divided into 100 sene.

Borrowed from Sanskrit ताल (tālá).

tala (plural talas)

1. (music) A rhythmic pattern in Indian music.

• laya

• Alt-A, Alta, Alta., Lata, alta, lata

Of Mongolic origin[1]. Ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *tala, *tal-b- (“steppe, open place”)[2], whence also Modern Mongolian тала (tala).

• IPA^(key): [tɑˈɫɑ]
• Hyphenation: ta‧la

tala (definite accusative talanı, plural talalar)

1. open place in a forest, meadow, glade

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰɛaːla/
• Rhymes: -ɛaːla
• Homophone: talað

From Old Norse tala, from Proto-Germanic *talō (“calculation, number”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to reckon, count”).

tala f (genitive singular talu, plural talur)

1. talk, conversation

From Old Norse tala, from Proto-Germanic *talōną.

tala (third person singular past indicative talaði, third person plural past indicative talað, supine talað)

1. to speak

tala

1. third-person singular past historic of taler

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰaːla/
• Rhymes: -aːla

  Homophones: Tala

From Old Norse tala, from Proto-Germanic *talō (“calculation, number”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to reckon, count”). Cognate with Dutch taal (“language, speech”), English tale (“number”) (from Middle English, from Old English talu (“calculation; story”)), German Zahl (“number, figure”), Danish tale (“speech”), Latin dolus (“guile, deceit, fraud”), Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos, “wile, bait”), Old Armenian տող (toł, “row”). Related to tell, talk.

tala f (genitive singular tölu, nominative plural tölur)

1. a short address, a speech
2. button

   Það á ekki að hneppa neðstu tölunni.

   You are not supposed to fasten the lowest button.

3. number

   Milljón er stór tala.

   A million is a big number.

4. (grammar) number

   Í hvaða tölu er orðið ‚hestur‘? — Það er í eintölu.

   What number is the word ‘horse’? — It is singular.

From Old Norse tala, from Proto-Germanic *talōną.

tala

1. to talk

• eins og um var talað
• tala um

Borrowed from French tel, Italian tale, Spanish tal.

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.la/

tala

1. such, like: of that kind

• tale (“so, in such a manner”)
• tale ke (“so that, in such a way that”)
• talmaniere (“thus, so, in such a way”)
• tala quala (“such as”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːlɑ/

tala n

1. definite plural of tal

• talen

• IPA^(key): /²tɑːlɑ/

tala f

1. definite singular of tale

From Old Norse tala

• tale

• IPA^(key): /²tɑːlɑ/

tala (present tense talar or taler, past tense tala or talte, past participle tala or talt, passive infinitive talast, present participle talande, imperative tal)

1. to speak, talk
2. to make a speech

• uttala

• “tala” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *talō.

tala f (genitive tǫlu)

1. speech, discourse
2. tale, number
3. (grammar) number
4. bead

• tal n (“number”)
• tala (“to speak”)
• telja (“to count”)

• tala1 in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tala in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

From Proto-Germanic *talōną, also from *talō.

tala

1. to talk, speak
2. to speak, make speech
3. to record, tell
4. (with prepositions)
   1. (til + genitive) to talk to, speak to
      • Rútr talaði þá til Marðar (gen.)

        Ruth then spoke to Mǫrðr

   2. (um + accusative) to talk about (something)
   3. (við + accusative) to talk with, speak to (someone)

• talaðr (“spoken, speaking”)
• tǫlugr (“well-spoken”)

• tal n (“number”)
• tala (“to speak”)
• telja (“to count”)

• tala2 in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tala in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

-tala

1. to become full

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

-tála

1. to bear

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Borrowed from Bengali তালা (tālā).

tala

1. lock

tala

1. story

• tusitala

• IPA^(key): /ˈtala/, [ˈt̪ala]

See talar (verb).

tala f (uncountable)

1. (forestry) felling, cutting down

tala

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of talar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of talar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of talar.

• (noun): deforestación
• (verb): desmontar

Borrowed from Quechua tara.

tala m (plural talas)

1. (trees) tala (Celtis tala, a South American tree).

-tála

1. to bear

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Old Norse tala, from Proto-Germanic *talō (“calculation, number”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to reckon, count”).

• IPA^(key): /tɑːla/

• audio

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tala (present talar, preterite talade, supine talat, imperative tala)

1. (somewhat formal) to speak; to utter words; to tell
2. (somewhat formal) to talk (to someone)
3. (somewhat formal) to make a speech

Språka is quite rare and is used about close or intimate talk. Prata is the most common, and is mainly used of informal talking. Tala is a more formal word in its own right, and mainly used about formal speeches, lecturing etc., but also in some expressions. In imperative it is also an encouragement to speak up.

• prata
• språka
• snacka (colloquial)

• talande tystnad
• tala om
• tala ut
• tala emot (strida emot, motstridig), speak against, contradictory

• säga

Borrowed from Sanskrit तारा (tārā).

tala

1. star

• bituin

• (third-person singular present/future; second-person singular imperative): tâl
• (first-person singular present/future): talaf

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈtala/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈtaːla/, /ˈtala/

tala

1. second-person singular imperative of talu
2. (literary) third-person singular present and future of talu
3. (colloquial) first-person singular future of talu