Tale-Teller
/ˈteɪlˌtelər/noun
A person who tells stories, especially someone who invents or recounts tales.
Did you know?The verbs “tell” and “tally” once shared the idea of counting or reckoning, so telling a tale originally carried the sense of carefully recounting something.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*del-
“To count, reckon, or enumerate; this root is cautiously connected with later Germanic forms meaning to tell.”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*talō / *taljaną
“A story, account, or act of telling; the source of English tale and tell.”
Old English
Old English
talu / tellan
“A story or account; to tell, recount, explain, or count.”
Middle English
Middle English
tale / tellen
“A story or report; to narrate, recount, or relate.”
Early Modern English
English
tale-teller
“A compound for a person who tells tales, used both neutrally and sometimes for an inventor of stories.”
Modern English
English
tale-teller
“A person who tells or invents stories.”