From: user5108@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   I can make no sense of the claimed etymology of 'tall' at etymology online nor   
   at Wiktionary.   
      
   Wik: From Middle English tall, talle, tal (“seemly, becoming, handsome,   
   good-looking, excellent, good, valiant, lively in speech, bold, great, large,   
   big”), from Old English *tæl, ġetæl (“swift, ready, having mastery   
   of”), from Proto-Germanic *   
   talaz (“submissive, pliable, obedient”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol-,   
   *del- (“to aim, calculate, adjust, reckon”).   
      
   Does anyone agree with that?   
      
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