taleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 tale, from 古期英語 talu (“tale, series, calculation”), from Proto-West Germanic *talu, from Proto-Germanic *talō (“calculation, number”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to reckon, count”).

Cognate with West Frisian taal (“speech, language”), Dutch taal (“language, speech”), German Zahl (“number, figure”), Danish tale (“speech”), Icelandic tala (“speech, talk, discourse, number, figure”), Latin dolus (“guile, deceit, fraud”), Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos, “wile, bait”), Albanian ndjell (“to lure”), Northern Kurdish til (“finger”), Old Armenian տող (toł, “row”). Related to tell, talk.

名詞

tale (plural tales)

1. A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.

   the Canterbury Tales

   • 1631, John Milton, L'Allegro:

     And every shepherd tells his tale
     Under the hawthorn in the dale.

   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 214:

     But can you guess what there was in the box? Why, it was a calf's tail, and if the calf's tail had been longer this tale would have been longer too.

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:

     Barla Von: What's this? One of the Earth-clan? Ah, a very famous one, yes? You are the one called Shepard.
     Barla Von: The tale of how you survived the great tragedy on Akuze is truly remarkable. I am amazed each time I hear it.

2. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, Book I, Preface, §4:

     the ignorant, […] who measure by tale, and not by weight

   • 1602, Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall:

     In packing, they keep a just tale of the number that every hogshead containeth ...

   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 5, Twelfth Century:

     They proceeded with some rigour, these Custodiars; took written inventories, clapt-on seals, exacted everywhere strict tale and measure

3. (slang) The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim.
4. An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.

   Don't tell tales!

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     “A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. […]”

5. (obsolete) Number; tally; quota.
   • 1611, King James Version, Exodus 5:8:

     And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

   • 1697, John Dryden, The Works of Virgil, Pastoral III:

     Both number twice a day the milky dams
     And once she takes the tale of all the lambs.

   • 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 1, page 237:

     To appease the angry god, two hundred children of the noblest families were picked out for sacrifice, and the tale of victims was swelled by not less than three hundred more who volunteered to die for the fatherland.

6. (obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.
7. (obsolete) Speech; language.
8. (obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
9. (law, obsolete) A count; declaration.
10. (rare or archaic) A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
11. (rare or archaic) A report of any matter; a relation; a version.
    • 1605, Francis Bacon, Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human, Volume I, Chapter IX:

      […] birds […] are aptest by their voice to tell tales what they find; and likewise by the motion of their flight to express the same.

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 talen, from 古期英語 talian (“to count, calculate, reckon”), from Proto-West Germanic *talōn, from Proto-Germanic *talōną (“to count”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to count, reckon, aim, calculate, adjust”).

Cognate with Dutch talen (“to long, care”), German zahlen (“to pay”), Swedish tala (“to speak, talk”), Icelandic tala (“to talk”).

動詞

tale (third-person singular simple present tales, present participle taling, simple past and past participle taled)

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

派生語

• taler

語源 3

名詞

tale (plural tales)

1. Alternative form of tael.

参考

• pourquoi tale

アナグラム

• teal, tael, et. al, atel-, LATE, late, TEAl, Elta, TEAL, et al, Teal, tela, leat, EATL, ETLA, et al.

名詞

tale

1. inflection of talu:
   1. nominative plural
   2. accusative singular/plural
   3. genitive/dative singular

語源

From 古期英語 talu, from Proto-West Germanic *talu.

発音

• IPA: /ˈtaːl(ə)/, /ˈtal(ə)/

名詞

tale (plural tales)

1. personal narrative, account

関連する語

• nyghtertale

派生した語

• English: tale
• Scots: tale
• Yola: taale

参照

• “tā̆le, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

形容詞

tāle

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of tālis

名詞

tāle

1. vocative singular of tālus

参照

• "tale", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)