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Date: 2009-12-24 02:53 am (UTC)"bank clerk who pays or receives money," 1475, "person who keeps accounts," from tell in its secondary sense of "count, enumerate," which is the primary sense of cognate words in many Gmc. languages.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
You might also say a teller is someone who keeps "tabs" for you - or on you. Not much different from a gossip after all. ;)