tale

nounstory

nounmade-up story

Word Origin & History

Old English talu "story, tale, the action of telling," from Proto-Germanic *talo (cf. Dutch taal "speech, language"), from PIE root *del- "to recount, count." The secondary English sense of "number, numerical reckoning" (c.1200) probably was the primary one in Germanic; cf. teller (see tell) and Old Frisian tale, Middle Dutch tal "number," Old Saxon tala "number," Old High German zala, German Zahl "number."

The ground sense of the Modern English word in its main meaning, then, might have been "an account of things in their due order." Related to talk ...

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Example Sentences for tale

To the end of the lives of the spectators, it was a tale of wonder.

His great failing was that he exaggerated--no tale ever losing anything in his charge.

Better live, to write your own tale than be the abject one to another.

Worst of all, almost, Mrs. Baker told the tale of my misdeeds to John.

It was always easy to get them to believe any tale which had gold in it.

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