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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/talgaz
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dolgʰos (“fat”).[1] This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɑl.ɣɑz/
Noun
*talgaz m
- tallow
Inflection
masculine a-stemDeclension of *talgaz (masculine a-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *talgaz | *talgōz, *talgōs | |
vocative | *talg | *talgōz, *talgōs | |
accusative | *talgą | *talganz | |
genitive | *talgas, *talgis | *talgǫ̂ | |
dative | *talgai | *talgamaz | |
instrumental | *talgō | *talgamiz |
Derived terms
- *talgijaną
Descendants
- Old English: tælg, *tealg, *tealh
- Middle English: talow
- English: tallow
- Scots: tauch, tallon
- Middle English: talow
- Old Frisian: *talch, *talk
- West Frisian: talk
- Old Saxon: *talg
- Middle Low German: talch
- German Low German: Talg
- → German: Talg
- → Dutch: talg (until 17th c.; modern form chiefly from German)
- → Old Norse: talg, talk n (*tǫlg, tolgr, tolg f)
- (Old Norse: tólgr, tólg)
- (Icelandic: tólg f)
- Faroese: tálg f
- Norwegian Nynorsk: talg; (dialectal) tolg, tølg, tålg, tåg)
- Norwegian Bokmål: talg
- Old Swedish: talgher m
- Swedish: talg
- Danish: talg
- Westrobothnian: tɑlg m
- (Old Norse: tólgr, tólg)
- Middle Low German: talch
- Old Dutch: *talg
- Middle Dutch: talgh, talch; tallick
- Dutch: talk
- Middle Dutch: talgh, talch; tallick
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 508