Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tallapoi

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tal-lapoi
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Obsolete form of talapoin.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"1667, The English Rogue, by Richard Headhttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/50416/50416-h/50416-h.htm Their Priest, which they call Tallapoi, are seeming very zealously superstitious: they somewhat incline to Mahometanism; for they pretend they will not drink wine, being forbidden it by their Law, yet are abominable hypocrites: for, though they wear a sheep-skin with the wool thereon, not suffering any hair to be on their bodies, and in shew lead a chaste life, yet I found the contrary; as you shall understand by what past between one of them and my self."

Etymology

From French talapoin, from Portuguese talapão, from Mon တၠဳ ပိုဲ (tloe poi, “our lord”).

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: talapoin, talapão, တၠဳ ပိုဲ

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

tallapois (plural)

Questions

What does tallapoi mean?: Obsolete form of talapoin.
Where does tallapoi come from?: It is traced to French.

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