dalle

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.

• IPA^(key): /dal/

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dalle f (plural dalles)

1. slab, flagstone

• avoir la dalle
• crever la dalle
• daller
• que dalle

• → English: dalles

dalle

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

• “dalle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

dalle

1. contraction of da le; from the

• da'
• dagli
• dai
• dal
• dall'
• dalla
• dallo

dalle

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

• della

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• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈtalle/

dalle

1. then, at that time

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

• Syllabification: da‧lle

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]

dalle m (plural dalles)

1. scythe

   Synonym: guadaña

dalle

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

• “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