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se_taler

taler

See also: Taler, tåler, and Täler

English

Noun

taler (plural talers)

  1. (archaic) A talker; a teller
    • 2000, Taimi Anne Olsen, Transcending Space:
      Earth writes from the point of view of " 'Baylor' the Taler of Behler the Failer" who tells Scheherazade's story (to Death, her "familiar stranger") of Somebody's last voyage.
    • 2007, Barbara A. Hanawalt, The Wealth of Wives:
      She had a series of aliases: “longa mariona wode alias Birde alias taler” [long Mariona Wode, alias Birdie, alias taler, perhaps tale teller].

Etymology 2

From German Taler, (older) Thaler. See also dollar.

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

taler (plural talers)

  1. (historical) Germanic unit of currency used between the 15th and 19th centuries.

Anagrams


Danish

Etymology 1

From tale (to speak) + -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taːlər/, [ˈtˢæːlɐ]

Noun

taler c (singular definite taleren, plural indefinite talere)

  1. speaker
Inflection

Etymology 2

See tale (speech).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taːlər/, [ˈtˢæːlɐ]

Noun

taler c

  1. plural indefinite of tale

Etymology 3

See tale (to speak).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taːlər/, [ˈtˢæːˀlɐ]

Verb

taler

  1. present tense of tale

French

Etymology 1

From German Taler, (older) Thaler.

Noun

taler m (plural talers)

  1. taler (currency)

Etymology 2

From Frankish tālōn (to tear away, rip off), via Latin, compare Spanish talar, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tēlō (persecution, deceit). Cognate with Old High German zâlôn (to root up, remove), Old English tǽl (reproof, calumny, mockery).

Verb

taler

  1. (transitive) to damage (a fruit)
Conjugation

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From tale + -er

Noun

taler m (definite singular taleren, indefinite plural talere, definite plural talerne)

  1. a speaker (person who speaks, or who makes a speech)
Derived terms

See also

References

Etymology 2

Noun

taler m

  1. indefinite plural of tale

Etymology 3

Verb

taler

  1. present tense of tale

Welsh

Pronunciation

Verb

taler

  1. (literary) subjunctive impersonal of talu
  2. (literary) imperative impersonal of talu

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
taler daler nhaler thaler
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.