dalle

See also: Dalle, dallé, and dallë

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French dalle (“sink, gullet”), a borrowing from Old Norse dæla (“a small dale, ship's drain or pump, a small bucket, a groove, trough, trench, eaves”), from Proto-Germanic *dalą (“valley”), cognate with Dutch daal (“trough, spout”). More at dale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dal/

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Noun

dalle f (plural dalles)

1. slab, flagstone

Derived terms

• avoir la dalle
• crever la dalle
• daller
• que dalle

Descendants

• → English: dalles

Verb

dalle

1. inflection of daller:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “dalle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdal.le/
• Rhymes: -alle
• Hyphenation: dàl‧le

Contraction

dalle

1. contraction of da le; from the

Related terms

• da'
• dagli
• dai
• dal
• dall'
• dalla
• dallo

Verb

dalle

1. compound of da', the second-person singular imperative form of dare, with le

Anagrams

• della

Northern Sami

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈtalle/

Adverb

dalle

1. then, at that time

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland