tailloir
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /taj.waʁ/, /tɑj.waʁ/
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Noun
tailloir m (plural tailloirs)
- abacus (uppermost member of the capital of a column)
Further reading
- “tailloir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French tailleor, tailleoir, equivalent to tailler (“to cut”) + -oir.
Noun
tailloir m (plural tailloirs)
- a plate or board upon which food is cut before it is served
Descendants
- French: tailloir
- → Middle Dutch: taeljoor, teljuur
- Dutch: taloor
- → Papiamentu: tayó
- Dutch: taloor
- → Middle High German: teller, teler, telier
- Cimbrian: tellar
- German: Teller
- Vilamovian: tełłer
- Yiddish: טעלער (teler)
- → Middle Low German: teller
- German Low German: Teller, Töller, Tüller
- → North Frisian: täliir (Halligen)