dalle

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See also: Dalle, dallé, and dallë

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

  • IPA(key): /dal/
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Noun

dalle f (plural dalles)

  1. slab, flagstone

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → English: dalles

Verb

dalle

  1. inflection of daller:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdal.le/
  • Rhymes: -alle
  • Hyphenation: dàl‧le

Contraction

dalle

  1. contraction of da le; from the

Related terms

Verb

dalle

  1. compound of dà, the second-person singular (tu) imperative form of dare, with le

Anagrams

Northern Sami

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈtalle/

Adverb

dalle

  1. 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) /ˈdaʎe/
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈdaʃe/
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈdaʒe/

 
  • (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -aʝe
  • (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -aʎe
  • (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -aʃe
  • (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -aʒe

  • Syllabification: da‧lle

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Catalan dalle or Occitan dalh, from Late Latin daculum (“sickle, scythe”), 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”).

Noun

dalle m (plural dalles)

  1. scythe
    Synonym: guadaña

Etymology 2

Verb

dalle

  1. inflection of dallar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

References

  1. ^ “dalle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
  2. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
  3. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 662, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 662

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