Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

talaje

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ta-la-je
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

a kind of tick (Ornithodoros talaje)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish talaje, from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl tlālāxin, from tlālli (“earth”) + āxin.

Origin

Source language: Spanish

Word Breakdown

Root: talaje

Inflected Forms

talajes (plural)

Questions

What does talaje mean?: a kind of tick (Ornithodoros talaje)
Where does talaje come from?: It is traced to Spanish.

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