tall

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 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]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɔːl/,

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /tɔl/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /tɑl/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːl

tall (comparative taller, superlative tallest)

1. (of a person) Having a vertical extent greater than the average. For example, somebody with a height of over 6 feet would generally be considered to be tall.

   Antonym: short

   Being tall is an advantage in basketball.

   • 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.

2. (of a building, etc.) Having its top a long way up; having a great vertical (and often greater than horizontal) extent.

   Synonym: (less common) high

   Antonyms: low, low-rise, short

3. (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."

5. (chiefly US, of a cup of coffee) Smaller than grande, usually 8 ounces (~ 230 ml).

   Coordinate terms: grande, venti

6. (obsolete) Obsequious; obedient.
7. (obsolete) Seemly; suitable; fitting, becoming, comely; attractive, handsome.
8. (obsolete) Bold; brave; courageous; valiant.
9. (archaic) Fine; proper; admirable; great; excellent.

• → Welsh: tal

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:

     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.

• “tall”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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

tall (aorist talla, participle tallur)

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

• tallje

• tallo

Deverbal from tallar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaʎ/
• Rhymes: -aʎ
• Syllabification: tall

tall m

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

• Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)

tall

1. Hard mutation of dall.

Deverbal from tallar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia)
• Rhymes: -aʎ

tall m (plural talls)

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

• “tall” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

tall (genitive talle, partitive talle)

1. lamb

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

tall (genitive talli, partitive talli)

1. horse stable

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

tall

Wikipedia ^no

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

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

1. number, numeral, figure

• tal (Nynorsk)

• “tall” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

• Irish: thall
• Manx: hoal
• Scottish Gaelic: thall

tall

1. that (used after the noun, which is preceded by the definite article)

   a tadall tall ― that visit

• sin

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

tall

Wikipedia ^sv

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

• IPA^(key): /tal/

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tall c

1. pine, Scots pine tree, Pinus sylvestris

• fura
• fur (uncountable)

• tallkotte
• tallväxter

• barrväxter
• björk (“birch”)
• furu (“pine wood”)
• furutimmer
• furuträ
• falla som en fura
• gran (“spruce”)

• tall in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tall in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tall in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• allt