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tāls

Pronunciation: [tâːls]

“tāls” is a Latvian word. Its 8 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. far, far away, distant (situated, living, coming from, happening in, a place which is at a relatively big distance away)
  2. distant (without close ties; such that one does not relate to it; not familiar)
  3. distant (difficult to realize)
  4. long, far (covering or reaching a large distance)
  5. far, distant, remote (executed from a distance)
  6. far, distant (separated from the present by a relatively long period of time)
  7. far, distant (having little in common)
  8. broad, wide (covering a large distance, territory)

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *tāli- or *toli-, from Proto-Indo-European *to- (pronominal stem) (whence tas (“that”), q.v.) with an extra suffix, either -āli (> *tāli-) or -li(> *toli-). The adverbial forms *tāli, *tālu, *tālus seem to be older than the adjectival ones, yielding both u- and yo-stem adjectives, in competition for some time: only in the early 20th century did the u-stem form tāls become the…

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