tale

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English word tale comes from Proto-Indo-European *dul-, and later Proto-Germanic *talō (Calculation, number, reckoning.)

*dul- (Proto-Indo-European)

to shake, hesitate

*talō (Proto-Germanic)

Calculation, number, reckoning.

*talōną (Proto-Germanic)

talian (Old English)

To impute, ascribe. To maintain, claim. To reckon, count, enumerate. To suppose, consider, reckon, account.

talen (Middle English)

tale (English)

(dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.. (dialectal, or, obsolete) To speak; discourse; tell tales.

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