Where does “Schokoladentafel” come from?

Schokoladentafel (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.

Schokoladentafel (German): chocolate bar, bar of chocolate, chocolate slab, tablet

Definitions

  1. chocolate bar, bar of chocolate, chocolate slab, tablet

Ancestry of “Schokoladentafel”, step by step

Schokoladentafel 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 Schokolade

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanSchokoladechocolate; cocoa drink
2Frenchchocolatchocolate; chocolate-coloured; deceived; tricked;...
3Spanishchocolatechocolate; hot chocolate; hashish
4Classical NahuatlchocolātlA drink with pulverized toasted cacao beans and water, described as cold and foamy. Sometimes fermented and sometimes as a thick drink. It can include a variety of additional ingredients (chili, bee honey, pochotl seeds, pulverized maize corn, vanilla seeds, and many others)
5Nahuatlchicolātl

Words derived from “Schokoladentafel

Every word from Proto-Italic *taðlā
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