Where does “talmál” come from?
talmál (Icelandic) comes from Icelandic mál, from Icelandic mála, from Old Norse mála, from Middle Low German mālen, from Old Saxon *mālōn, from Proto-West Germanic *mālēn, from Proto-Albanian melana, from Proto-Indo-European melh₂-n- — to strengthen; to bind; to change, exchange.
talmál (Icelandic): spoken language
Definitions
- spoken language
Ancestry of “talmál”, step by step
talmál traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Icelandic mál
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Icelandic | mál | language; speech; matter, affair |
| 2 | Icelandic | mála | to paint; indefinite genitive plural of mál |
| 3 | Old Norse | mála | to grind |
| 4 | Middle Low German | mālen | to draw, paint; to paint |
| 5 | Old Saxon | *mālōn | — |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | *mālēn | to paint |
| 7 | Proto-Albanian | melana | black |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | melh₂-n- | dull black |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | melh₂- | to grind, to crush |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | mel- | soft; tender; weak; to deceive; to rub |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | mey- | to strengthen; to bind; to change, exchange |
via Icelandic tál
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Icelandic | tál | deception, deceptive allurement, seduction |
| 2 | Old Norse | tal | a talk, parley, conversation; speech, language; a... |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | talą | speech; number |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | dol- | reckoning, calculation, fraud; calculation, fraud |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | del- | to aim, calculate, adjust, count; to reckon,... |