LL-L "Etymology" 2004.08.07 (01) [E, A]

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Onderwerp: "Etymology"
Van: "Ruth & Mark Dreyer" <mrdreyer at lantic.net>


Beste Luc,

> Onderwerp: Etymology

> Re "teljoor" (D), "Teller" (G), "tallrik" (Swedish) and "tallerken"
> (Norwegian) for a plate: < "tailloir" (French), denoting a
> chopping-board < French "tailler", "to cut" < Latin "taliare",
> "to split".
> Cognate with for example "detail" (D), (G), (E) and "taille" (D), (G).

Dankie vir die Latyns!

Die Uwe,
Mark


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Onderwerp: "Language varieties"
Van: "Kevin Caldwell" <kcaldwell31 at comcast.net>


> Onderwerp: "Language varieties"
> Van: "Ruth & Mark Dreyer" <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
>
> Dear All,
>
> Onderwerp: "Language varieties"
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> > > It seems to be the same word as German "Teller" (plate) which is
> > > also in use in Low Saxon.
>
> Is this word related to the Latin 'catillus' - plate, or
> perhaps the Latin tessellus' (I think), for a teracotta 'plate'
> used to cover roofs, floors or wall?
>
> We know the English for that word is 'plate', & in Afrikaans
> we say 'bord'.

I thought I'd note in passing that the Russian word for 'plate' is
'tarelka'.  Could it be related to this word 'Teller/telleur'?  And what
about the name of the element tellurium, which comes from a Latin word for
'earth'?  'Tellurian' means 'of the earth' and a 'tellurion' is an
instrument that demonstrates how the motion of the earth (both on its axis
and around the sun) causes day and night and the seasons.

Kevin Caldwell (kcaldwell31 at comcast.net)


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