Where does “talgboll” come from?
talgboll (Swedish) comes from Swedish talg, from Old Swedish talgher, from Middle Low German talch, from Old Saxon talg, from Proto-West Germanic *talg, from Proto-Germanic talgaz, from Proto-Indo-European del- — to aim, calculate, adjust, count; to reckon,...
talgboll (Swedish): a suet ball (for feeding birds)
Definitions
- a suet ball (for feeding birds)
Ancestry of “talgboll”, step by step
talgboll traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish talg
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | talg | tallow |
| 2 | Old Swedish | talgher | — |
| 3 | Middle Low German | talch | — |
| 4 | Old Saxon | talg | — |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | *talg | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | talgaz | tallow |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | del- | to aim, calculate, adjust, count; to reckon,... |
via Swedish boll
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | boll | a ball; a more or less spherical object which is... |
| 2 | Old Swedish | balder | — |
| 3 | Old Norse | bǫllr | round object, sphere, ball; testicle |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | balluz | round object, ball; ball of the hand, foot, etc |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |