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French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French dalle (“sink, gullet”), a borrowing from Old Norse dæla (“a small dale, ship's drain or pump, a small bucket, a groove, trough, trench, eaves”), from Proto-Germanic *dalą (“valley”), cognate with Dutch daal (“trough, spout”). More at dale.
Pronunciation
Noun
dalle f (plural dalles)
- slab, flagstone
Derived terms
Descendants
Verb
dalle
- inflection of daller:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
Italian
Pronunciation
Contraction
dalle
- contraction of da le; from the
Verb
dalle
- compound of dà, the second-person singular imperative form of dare, with le
Anagrams
Northern Sami
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈtalle/
Adverb
dalle
- then, at that time
Further reading
- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈdaʝe/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈdaʎe/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈdaʃe/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈdaʒe/
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Catalan dall or Occitan dalh, from Late Latin daculum (“sickle, scythe”),[1][2] possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰalg-tlā, from *dʰalg-, *dʰalk- (“pricking, stabbing, or cutting tool; needle, pin; knife”), from *dʰelg-, *dʰelk- (“to stick, prick, stab”).
See also Lithuanian dilgėlė (“nettle”), dilgus (“prickly”), Latin falx (“hook, sickle”), Old Irish delg (“spine, needle”).[3]
Noun
dalle m (plural dalles)
- scythe
- Synonym: guadaña
Etymology 2
Verb
dalle
- inflection of dallar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
References
- ^ “dalle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “662”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 662
Further reading