talg

Danish edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Low German talch.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /talˀj/, [t͡sʰælˀj]

Noun edit

talg c (singular definite talgen, not used in plural form)

tallow
suet

References edit

“talg” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch edit

Alternative forms edit

talk (only for “tallow”)

Etymology edit

Borrowed in the sense “sebum” in the early 20th century from German Talg (“tallow; sebum”), from Middle Low German talg, from Old Saxon *talg, from Proto-Germanic *talgaz. For “tallow”, the standard Dutch form was talk, but the borrowed form is now preferred in this sense as well, probably in order to avoid the homophony with talk (“talc”). This development may have been reinforced by inherited dialectal forms with -g, from Middle Dutch talch, which had been unused in written Dutch since the 18th century.