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From Middle English tall, talle, tal (“seemly, becoming, handsome, good-looking, excellent, good, valiant, lively in speech, bold, great, large, big”), from Old English *tæl, ġetæl (“swift, ready, having mastery of”), from Proto-Germanic *talaz (“submissive, pliable, obedient”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol-, *del- (“to aim, calculate, adjust, reckon”).

Cognate with Scots tal (“high, lofty, tall”), Old Frisian tel (“swift”), Old Saxon gital (“quick”), Old High German gizal (“active, agile”), Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍄𐌰𐌻𐍃 (untals, “indocile, disobedient”).

The Oxford English Dictionary notes: "The sense development [of _tall_] is remarkable, but is paralleled more or less by that of other adjectives expressing estimation, such as buxom, canny, clean, clever, cunning, deft, elegant, handsome, pretty, proper; German klein, as compared with English clean, presents the antithesis to modern tall as compared to tall in early Middle English. It has been conjectured that in the sense 'high of stature' it is a different word, adopted from the Welsh _tal in some sense; but the latter is, according to Professor Rhŷs, merely a 16th-century borrowing of the English word (in Owen Pughe's Dictionary erroneously mixed up with the genuine Welsh word tal (“end, brow, forehead”), with which it has no possible connection.)"[1]

tall (comparative taller, superlative tallest)

  1. (literal) Having a top that is far up (contrast: deep ('having a bottom that is far down' ).)
    1. (of a person or two-footed creature) Having great vertical extent (usually reckoned from the bottom of the feet to the very top of the head) when standing. (For instance, somebody with a height of over 6 feet would generally be deemed tall.)
      Antonym: short
      Being tall is an advantage in basketball.
      Ostriches are the tallest living birds.
      • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
        Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, […] , and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
      • 2000, Robert Bingham, Lightning on the Sun, page 34:
        He′d been packed in with all the other journos, standing out only in that he was taller than most and didn′t make as much noise.
    2. (of an inanimate thing, such as a building, hill, lamp, etc.) Having its top a long way up; having a great vertical (and often greater than horizontal) extent.
      Synonym: (less common, old-styled) high
      Antonyms: low, low-rise, short
      Tall trees, at least about 30m high.
      • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 55:
        To him it seemed that the Bornean rainforests, the tallest on Earth, were places that had: 'remained untouched and unchanged since remote geological epochs[.]'
    3. (specialized, chiefly US, of a cup of coffee) Smaller than grande, usually 8 ounces (~ 230 ml).
      Coordinate terms: grande, venti
  2. (of a story) Hard to believe, such as a tall story or a tall tale.
    • 1870, The Cornhill Magazine, volume 21, page 9:
      "That's tall talk."
      "Not an inch taller than the truth."
  3. Old senses that arose before the height-related senses
    1. (obsolete) Obsequious; obedient.
    2. (obsolete) Seemly; suitable; fitting, becoming, comely; attractive, handsome.
    3. (obsolete) Bold; brave; courageous; valiant.
    4. (archaic) Fine; proper; admirable; great; excellent.

of a person

of a building

of a story

tall (plural talls)

  1. (possibly nonstandard) Someone or something that is tall.

    • 1912, George Francis Atkinson, Botany for High Schools, Henry Holt and Company:
      But in the second generation of hybrids (from seed of the first) talls and dwarfs were both present, and in the proportion of twelve talls to four dwarfs.
    • 2009, Arianne Cohen, The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life from on High, page 197:
      The industries that best accommodate talls are those that have faced personal injury lawsuits.
    • 2018 June 5, Chris Robinson, “Fremantle Dockers defender Alex Pearce faces fitness test on injured ankle”, in The West Australian‎[1]:
      Fremantle remains unsure about the status a pair of key talls ahead of a defining clash with Adelaide at Optus Stadium.

  2. A clothing size for taller people.
    Do you have this in a tall?

  3. A tall serving of a drink, especially one from Starbucks, which contains 12 ounces.

  4. ^ Oxford English Dictionary T, p. 57.

From Proto-Albanian *talna, related to Lithuanian ti̇̀lti (“to become silent”), Old Irish tuilid (“to sleep”), Proto-Slavic *toliti (“to persuade, to make quiet”).[1]

tall (aorist talla, participle tallur) (transitive)

  1. to ridicule, mock
  2. to deride, laugh at

Standard Albanian conjugation of tall (active voice)

| | participle | tallur | | | | | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | gerund | duke tallur | | | | | | | | infinitive | për të tallur | | | | | | | | singular | plural | | | | | | | | 1st pers. | 2nd pers. | 3rd pers. | 1st pers. | 2nd pers. | 3rd pers. | | | | indicative | present | tall | tall | tall | tallim | tallni | tallin | | imperfect | tallja | tallje | tallte | tallnim | tallnit | tallnin | | | aorist | talla | talle | talli | tallëm | tallët | tallën | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | perfect | kam tallur | ke tallur | ka tallur | kemi tallur | keni tallur | kanë tallur | | | past perfect | kisha tallur | kishe tallur | kishte tallur | kishim tallur | kishit tallur | kishin tallur | | | aorist II | pata tallur | pate tallur | pati tallur | patëm tallur | patët tallur | patën tallur | | | future1 | do të tall | do të tallësh | do të tallë | do të tallim | do të tallni | do të tallin | | | future perfect2 | do të kem tallur | do të kesh tallur | do të ketë tallur | do të kemi tallur | do të keni tallur | do të kenë tallur | | | subjunctive | present | të tall | të tallësh | të tallë | të tallim | të tallni | të tallin | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | imperfect | të tallja | të tallje | të tallte | të tallnim | të tallnit | të tallnin | | | perfect | të kem tallur | të kesh tallur | të ketë tallur | të kemi tallur | të keni tallur | të kenë tallur | | | past perfect | të kisha tallur | të kishe tallur | të kishte tallur | të kishim tallur | të kishit tallur | të kishin tallur | | | conditional1, 2 | imperfect | do të tallja | do të tallje | do të tallte | do të tallnim | do të tallnit | do të tallnin | | past perfect | do të kisha tallur | do të kishe tallur | do të kishte tallur | do të kishim tallur | do të kishit tallur | do të kishin tallur | | | optative | present | tallsha | tallsh | talltë | tallshim | tallshi | tallshin | | | | | | | | | | | perfect | paça tallur | paç tallur | pastë tallur | paçim tallur | paçit tallur | paçin tallur | | | admirative | present | tallkam | tallke | tallka | tallkemi | tallkeni | tallkan | | imperfect | tallkësha | tallkëshe | tallkësh | tallkëshim | tallkëshit | tallkëshin | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | perfect | paskam tallur | paske tallur | paska tallur | paskemi tallur | paskeni tallur | paskan tallur | | | past perfect | paskësha tallur | paskëshe tallur | paskësh tallur | paskëshim tallur | paskëshit tallur | paskëshin tallur | | | imperative | present | — | tall | — | — | tallni | — | | 1) indicative future identical with conditional present 2) indicative future perfect identical with conditional perfect | | | | | | | |

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir (1998), “tall”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 448

Deverbal from tallar.

tall m

  1. cut, slice
  2. cutting edge
  3. cutaway (of a guitar)
  4. (golf) cut

tall

  1. hard mutation of dall

Deverbal from tallar.

tall m (plural talls)

  1. cutting edge
  2. edge (of a page)
  3. cut, slice
  4. cutaway (of a guitar)
  5. (golf) cut

tall (genitive talle, partitive talle)

  1. lamb
Declension of tall (ÕS type 22i/külm, length gradation)
singular plural
nominative tall talled
accusative nom.
gen. talle
genitive tallede
partitive talle tallitallesid
illative talletallesse talledessetallisse
inessive talles talledestallis
elative tallest talledesttallist
allative tallele talledeletallile
adessive tallel talledeltallil
ablative tallelt talledelttallilt
translative talleks talledekstalliks
terminative talleni talledeni
essive tallena talledena
abessive talleta talledeta
comitative tallega talledega

Note: the short plural forms from illative onward are almost never used.

tall (genitive talli, partitive talli)

  1. horse stable
Declension of tall (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
singular plural
nominative tall tallid
accusative nom.
gen. talli
genitive tallide
partitive talli talletallisid
illative tallitallisse tallidessetallesse
inessive tallis tallidestalles
elative tallist tallidesttallest
allative tallile tallideletallele
adessive tallil tallideltallel
ablative tallilt tallidelttallelt
translative talliks tallidekstalleks
terminative tallini tallideni
essive tallina tallidena
abessive tallita tallideta
comitative talliga tallidega

From English tall.

tall

  1. big
  2. tall

tall

  1. To a great extent
    example: sway tall ("swear extensively and fervently")

Old Norse tal

Norwegian Bokmål tall

Inherited from Old Norse tal, from Proto-Germanic *talą (“number, speech”).

tall n (definite singular tallet, indefinite plural **tall, definite plural talla or tallene)

  1. number, numeral, figure

tall f (definite singular talla or talli, indefinite plural taller, definite plural tallene)

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of toll

tall

  1. there
    Is bec ndi dechur fil etarru siu ⁊ tall. ― There is little difference between them here and there.
  2. then
    amal du·ratsat sacaird tall bendachta forsin popul ― as the priests had blessed the people then

tall

  1. that (used after the noun, which is preceded by the definite article)
    a tadall tall ― that visit

tallar (och några björkar) [pines (and a few birches)]

tallbark [pine bark]

From Old Norse þǫll. Cognate with Jamtish toll, Icelandic þöll.

tall c

  1. pine, Scots pine tree, Pinus sylvestris

tall

  1. musk daisy-bush (Olearia argophylla)[1]

  2. ^ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/The_aborigines_of_Victoria_-_with_notes_relating_to_the_habits_of_the_natives_of_other_parts_of_Australia_and_Tasmania_%28IA_b24885228_0002%29.pdf