The story
- Arabic · borrowed fromتَلّ“hillock”
- English todayEt-Tell
From Arabic تَلّ (tall, “hillock”); see tell (“mound over an ancient settlement”).
Words from the same roots
Arabicتَلّ all →
tell
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Et-Tell
Today it means: An archaeological site in Israel popularly thought to be the biblical city of Ai. Full definition →
Arabic تَلّ