[teɪl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a fictitious or true narrative or story, especially one that is imaginatively recounted
(e.g: a delightful children's tale)

- a number or total
(e.g: an exact tale of the dead bodies)


Phrases:
- a tale of a tub
- tell tales

Origin:
Old English talu ‘telling, something told’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch taal ‘speech’ and German Zahl ‘number’, also to tell. tale is probably from Old Norse