talu

From Proto-Malayic *təlu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu, from Proto-Austronesian *təlu.

talu

1. three

From Proto-Finnic *taloi.

talu (genitive talu, partitive talu)

1. farm, farmstead

   Synonyms: talukoht, talumajand, farm, talumajapidamine, suits, koht

   Talu osteti peaaegu poole miljoni dollari eest.

   The farm was bought for almost half a million dollars.

• talu in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “talu”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

• laut

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təlu.

talu

1. three

From Proto-West Germanic *talu, from Proto-Germanic *talō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑ.lu/

talu f

1. account, reckoning
2. tale; narration

• tellan

• Middle English: tale, tal, talle, taile, taille (chiefly Northern ME)
  • English: tale
  • Scots: tale
  • Yola: taale

From Proto-Polynesian *talu. Cognates include Tongan talu and Samoan talu.

• IPA^(key): [ˈta.lu]
• Hyphenation: ta‧lu

talu

1. because of
2. since
   • 1948, Tūlāfono fakavae a Tokelau [Constitution of Tokelau]‎^[1], page 1:

     Talu mai nā aho o Maui, ma Tui Tokelau ko te laukelekele, te tai, ma te ea nae fakaolaola ai o matou tagata

     Ever since the days of Maui, and Tui Tokelau, the land, the sea, it was them that stimulated our people

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[2], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 368

From Proto-Trans-New Guinea *tala.

talu

1. two

• Nancy Bowers, Pundia Lepi (1975) “Kaugel valley systems of reckoning”, in The Journal of the Polynesian Society‎^[3], volume 84, number 3, page 310

From Middle Welsh talu, talaf,^[1] from Proto-Brythonic, from Proto-Celtic *tal-ī- (“to pay”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂-li-. Cognate with Cornish tyli, Latin tālis (“such”), Proto-Slavic *toliko (“this much”). An alternative theory considers the word (and its relatives, which are only found in Brythonic and not Goidelic) as a borrowing from Old Norse tal (“number, count”).^[2]

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈtalɨ̞/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈta(ː)li/
• Rhymes: -alɨ̞

talu (first-person singular present talaf)

1. to pay

   Wyt ti wedi talu am y bwyd eto?

   Have you paid for the food yet?

• desg talu (“cash desk”)
• talu chwŷl (“to pay back, to retaliate”)

• ad-daliad (“refund, repayment”)
• ad-dalu (“to refund, to reimburse”)

talu

1. beeswax