Etymograph

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Tauber

Tauber comes from German Tauber ‘male pigeon or dove’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*dūbǭ‘dove, pigeon’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*dūbā‘dove, pigeon’reconstructed
  3. Old High Germanc. 750–1050tūba
  4. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350tūbe
  5. Germanc. 1650–presentTaube‘pigeon’
  6. German, derivedc. 1650–presentTauber‘male pigeon or dove’
  7. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*dūbǭ‘dove, pigeon’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*dūbā‘dove, pigeon’reconstructed
  3. Old High Germanc. 750–1050tūba
  4. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350tūbe
  5. Germanc. 1650–presentTaube‘pigeon’
  6. German, derivedc. 1650–presentTauber‘male pigeon or dove’
  7. Englishtodaysame form

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- ‘to whisk’

deep, bottom, fund, foundation, depth, dumb, dave, founder, dip, deaf, fond, bot, dove, bourne, dub, butte, typhus, doof, 24 more

Another origin of Tauber

  1. Germanc. 1650–presentTauber
  2. Englishtodaysame form

Today it means

name A surname from German.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ / Tauber

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