tal

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tal"

Languages (42)

Translingual

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Amal • Breton • Catalan • Cimbrian • Coatepec Nahuatl • Cornish • Crimean Tatar • Danish • Dutch • Eastern Durango Nahuatl • Epigraphic Mayan • Estonian • Faroese • Galician • Highland Puebla Nahuatl • Icelandic • Italian • Ladino • Livonian • Maltese • Mangas • Northern Kurdish • Norwegian Bokmål • Norwegian Nynorsk • Old English • Old Galician-Portuguese • Old High German • Old Norse • Old Spanish • Pipil • Pochutec • Polish • Portuguese • Romanian • Spanish • Swedish • Tatar • Tzotzil • Welsh • West Frisian • Yucatec Maya

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Translingual

Symbol

tal

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tal.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tal terms

Amal

Noun

tal

1. woman

References

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

Breton

Etymology

From Middle Breton tal, from Old Breton talar, from Proto-Brythonic *tal, from Proto-Celtic *talu. Cognate with Cornish tal and Welsh tâl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːl/

Noun

tal m (plural talioù or taloù)

1. forehead

Mutation

Mutation of tal

	unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard
singular	tal	dal	zal	unchanged
plural	talioù	dalioù	zalioù	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Breton.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Adjective

tal m or f (masculine and feminine plural tals)

1. such (like this, that)

   Synonym: semblant

Alternative forms

• aital (obsolete)

Derived terms

• com a tal
• i tal
• tal com
• tal dit tal fet
• tal faràs, tal trobaràs
• tal i tal
• tal qual
• talment

Adverb

tal

1. like that, in that way

Derived terms

• per tal de
• per tal que
• tal com

Pronoun

tal

1. anything, whatever

References

• “tal”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “tal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “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.

Cimbrian

Noun

tal n

1. valley

References

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

Coatepec Nahuatl

Pronoun

tal

1. you

Cornish

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taːl/

Etymology 1

From Middle Cornish tal, taal, from Old Cornish tal, from Proto-Brythonic *tal, from Proto-Celtic *talu. Cognate with Breton tal and Welsh tâl.

Noun

tal m or f (plural talyow)

1. forehead
2. brow
3. (anatomy) temple

   Synonym: er

4. front

   Synonym: greuv

Derived terms

• plegya tal (“frown”, verb)
• talar (“headland”)
• talben (“knob”)
• talek (“big-browed”)
• talenebek, talyel (“front, frontal”, adjective)
• talenep (“facade, frontage”)
• talgam (“sullen”)
• talgamma (“frown”, verb)
• talsogh (“dimwit, stupid”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tal

1. third-person singular present indicative/future indicative of tyli (“to pay”)
2. second-person singular imperative of tyli (“to pay”)

Mutation

Mutation of tal

unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed	mixed after 'th
tal	dal	thal	unchanged	unchanged	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Crimean Tatar

Noun

tal

1. willow

Danish

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tal/, [ˈtˢal]

Noun

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.

Declension

Declension of tal

neuter gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tal	tallet	tal	tallene
genitive	tals	tallets	tals	tallenes

References

• “tal” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taːˀl/, [ˈtˢæˀl]

Verb

tal

1. imperative of tale

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑl

Determiner

tal

1. (~ van) numerous, many, lots

   Je hebt tal van mogelijkheden.

   You have lots of possibilities.

Noun

tal n (plural tallen, no diminutive)

1. a number
2. a quantity

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

• aantal
• boventallig
• jaartal
• overtal
• talloos
• talrijk
• tiental
• tweetal
• viertal

Anagrams

• alt, lat

Eastern Durango Nahuatl

Noun

tal

1. land

Epigraphic Mayan

Verb

tal

1. to come

Estonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑl/

Pronoun

tal

1. adessive singular of ta (“he/she”)

Usage notes

• Used unstressed in a sentence. When the pronoun is stressed, temal (adessive of tema) is used.

Faroese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰɛaːl/
• Rhymes: -ɛaːl

Noun

tal n (genitive singular tals, plural tøl)

1. number
2. (grammar) number

Declension

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

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese tal, from Latin talis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtal]

Pronoun

tal

1. such

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

Derived terms

• talmente

Adjective

tal m or f (plural tales)

1. such

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

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “tal”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “tal”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• 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

Highland Puebla Nahuatl

Noun

tal

1. land

Icelandic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰaːl/
• Rhymes: -aːl

Noun

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.

Declension

Declension of tal (neuter)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tal	talið	töl	tölin
accusative	tal	talið	töl	tölin
dative	tali	talinu	tölum	tölunum
genitive	tals	talsins	tala	talanna

See also

• 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

Italian

Determiner

tal (apocopated)

1. apocopic form of tale