Where does “Schiefertafel” come from?

Schiefertafel (German) comes from German tafel, from Middle High German tavel, from Old High German tavala, from Old Italian tavola, from Latin tabula, from Proto-Italic *taðlā — board.

Schiefertafel (German): slate, chalkboard, blackboard usually a portable chalkboard, like one a student might have to personally use at school or the kind of chalkboards that hang outside of restaurants to feature their specials

Definitions

  1. slate, chalkboard, blackboard usually a portable chalkboard, like one a student might have to personally use at school or the kind of chalkboards that hang outside of restaurants to feature their specials

Ancestry of “Schiefertafel”, step by step

Schiefertafel traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German tafel

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germantafelinflection of tafeln: ## first-person singular...
2Middle High Germantavel
3Old High Germantavala
4Old Italiantavola
5Latintabulatablet, sometimes a tablet covered with wax for...
6Proto-Italic*taðlāboard

via German Schiefer

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanSchiefershale, slate; small splinter
2Middle High Germanschiver
3Old High Germanskivaro
Every word from Proto-Italic *taðlā
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