Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/talentā
Proto-West Germanic
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin talenta, plural of talentum (“talent”).
Noun
edit*talentā f
- (Christianity) talent (money, weight)
Declension
editōn-stem | ||
---|---|---|
Singular | ||
Nominative | *talentā | |
Genitive | *talentōn | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *talentā | *talentōn |
Accusative | *talentōn | *talentōn |
Genitive | *talentōn | *talentōnō |
Dative | *talentōn | *talentōm, *talentum |
Instrumental | *talentōn | *talentōm, *talentum |
Descendants
edit- Old English: talente
- Old Saxon: *talenta
- Middle Low German: tālent
- Old Dutch: *talenta
- Old High German: talenta
Further reading
edit- de Vries, Jan (1971) “talent”, in Nederlands etymologisch woordenboek [Dutch etymological dictionary] (in Dutch), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN
- van Veen, P.A.F., van der Sijs, Nicoline (1997) “talent”, in Etymologisch woordenboek: de herkomst van onze woorden (in Dutch), Utrecht, Antwerpen: Van Dale Lexicografie, →ISBN
- Durkin, Philip (2014) Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 118
Categories:
- Proto-West Germanic terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Proto-West Germanic terms borrowed from Latin
- Proto-West Germanic terms derived from Latin
- Proto-West Germanic lemmas
- Proto-West Germanic nouns
- Proto-West Germanic feminine nouns
- gmw-pro:Money
- gmw-pro:Weight
- gmw-pro:Christianity
- Proto-West Germanic ōn-stem nouns