# tall
## English
### Etymology

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.)"

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /tɔːl/, [tʰoːɫ]
* Audio (Received Pronunciation):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /tɔl/
* (cot–caught merger) IPA: /tɑl/
* Audio (US, cot–caught merger):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔːl

### Adjective

tall (comparative taller, superlative tallest)
* (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.
** 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.
* (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
** 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[.]'
* (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."
* (chiefly US, of a cup of coffee) Smaller than grande, usually 8 ounces (~ 230 ml).
    Coordinate terms: grande, venti
* (obsolete) Obsequious; obedient.
* (obsolete) Seemly; suitable; fitting, becoming, comely; attractive, handsome.
* (obsolete) Bold; brave; courageous; valiant.
* (archaic) Fine; proper; admirable; great; excellent.

#### Derived terms

* big and tall
* feel eight feet tall
* feel nine feet tall
* feel ten feet tall
* feel twelve feet tall
* mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails
* plain tall
* ride tall in the saddle
* stand tall
* tall-case clock
* tall, dark and handsome
* tall drink
* tall drink of water
* tall fescue
* tall glass of water
* tall in the saddle
* tall man
* tall meadowrue
* tall nightshade
* tall oaks from little acorns grow
* tall oil
* tall one
* tall order
* tall pawn
* tall pocosin
* tall poppy
* tall poppy syndrome
* tall reed
* tall ship
* tall story
* tall tale
* tall thistle
* walk tall

#### Descendants

* → Welsh: tal

#### Translations

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### Noun

tall (plural talls)
* (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.
* A clothing size for taller people.
    Do you have this in a tall?
* A tall serving of a drink, especially one from Starbucks, which contains 12 ounces.

### References

* ↑ Oxford English Dictionary T, p. 57.
* “tall”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

## Albanian
### Etymology

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

### Verb

tall (aorist talla, participle tallur) (transitive)
* to ridicule, mock
* to deride, laugh at

#### Conjugation

* Show compound tenses:

#### Derived terms

* tallje

### References

* ↑ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “tall”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 448

## Aragonese
### Alternative forms

* tallo

### Etymology

Deverbal from tallar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtaʎ/
* Rhymes: -aʎ
* Syllabification: tall

### Noun

tall m
* cut, slice
* cutting edge
* cutaway (of a guitar)
* (golf) cut

### Further reading

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

## Breton
### Adjective

tall
* Hard mutation of dall.

## Catalan
### Etymology

Deverbal from tallar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtaʎ]
* Rhymes: -aʎ

### Noun

tall m (plural talls)
* cutting edge
* edge (of a page)
* cut, slice
* cutaway (of a guitar)
* (golf) cut

### Further reading

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

## Estonian
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

tall (genitive talle, partitive talle)
* lamb

##### Declension

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

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

tall (genitive talli, partitive talli)
* horse stable

##### Declension
## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

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

### Noun

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

#### Derived terms

* basetall
* befolkningstall
* desimaltall
* dødstall
* flertall
* folketall
* fødselstall
* fåtall
* grunntall
* heltall
* innbyggertall
* komplekst tall
* mindretall
* mørketall
* nøkkeltall
* oddetall
* ordenstall
* partall
* primtall
* romertall
* tallmessig
* tallrik
* talløs
* turtall
* utall
* åttetall

### See also

* tal (Nynorsk)

### References

* “tall” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

tall f (definite singular talla or talli, indefinite plural taller, definite plural tallene)
* (pre-2012) alternative form of toll

## Old Irish
### Adverb

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

#### Descendants

* Irish: thall
* Manx: hoal
* Scottish Gaelic: thall

### Determiner

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

#### Synonyms

* sin

## Swedish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tal/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

tall c
* pine, Scots pine tree, Pinus sylvestris

#### Synonyms

* fura
* fur (uncountable)

#### Derived terms

* tallkotte
* tallväxter

#### See also

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

### References

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

### Anagrams

* allt

## Woiwurrung
### Noun

tall
* musk-tree (Olearia argophylla)

### References

* ↑ 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