/tã.la/

Price; value; exchange equivalence, for price of

As a noun, it designates the price or value of something. As a post-positional relational particle, it indicates “for” in the sense of price, payment, value, exchange or equivalence.

Does not indicate cause, purpose, agent or instrument. Its field is specifically that of the value relationship.

Related to the field of exchange, equivalence and value.

The word is semantically associated with latũla, “to exchange”, but specializes in the abstract measure of exchange: that which allows us to say how much one thing is worth in relation to another.

If latũla is the act of exchanging, tãla is the symbolic measure that organizes the exchange. Therefore, it can mean both “price/value” and the relationship “for such value”.