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talesman

noun

Etymology

From tale + -s- + man.

  1. inherited from *mon-✻ — “human being, man”
  2. inherited from *mann-✻ — “man”
  3. inherited from *mann✻
  4. inherited from mann — “human being, person, man”
  5. inherited from man
  6. formed as talesman — “tale + -s- + man”

Definitions

  1. The (male) author or relater of a tale

    The (male) author or relater of a tale; storyteller.

  2. Someone summoned to a jury when a tales is awarded, to make up numbers.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for talesman. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA