n. tale, story

Huzrah nu, kul do od, wah aan bok lingrah vod, ahrk fin tey, boziik fun, do fin gein!
Hearken now, sons of snow, to an age, long ago, and the tale, boldly told, of the one!
(Book, Songs of Skyrim)

Does not connotate something fictitious as the English word ‘tale’ might.

Possibly shares root with tinvaak ‘to speak’.