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English

agridollar

Agridollar comes from German Tal ‘valley’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *dalą.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*dalą‘valley, dale’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*dal‘valley, dale’reconstructed
  3. Old High Germanc. 750–1050tal‘valley’
  4. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350same form
  5. Germanc. 1650–presentTal‘valley’
  6. German, derivedc. 1650–presentTaler
  7. Middle Low Germanc. 1200–1600dāler
  8. Dutchc. 1500–presentdaler
  9. English1500–presentdollar
  10. Englishtodayagridollar

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*dalą‘valley, dale’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*dal‘valley, dale’reconstructed
  3. Old High Germanc. 750–1050tal‘valley’
  4. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350same form
  5. Germanc. 1650–presentTal‘valley’
  6. German, derivedc. 1650–presentTaler
  7. Middle Low Germanc. 1200–1600dāler
  8. Dutchc. 1500–presentdaler
  9. English1500–presentdollar
  10. Englishtodayagridollar

A compound of agri- + dollar

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros ‘field, pasturage’

Proto-Italic *agros ‘field’

Latin ager ‘field’

English agri-

Proto-Germanic *dalą ‘valley’

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German Joachimsthaler ‘coin of (Sankt) Joachimsthal’

German Taler ‘thaler (coin)’

Middle Low German dāler

Dutch daalder ‘thaler’

English dollar

Linked words

through Proto-Germanic *dalą ‘valley, dale’

dell, dalles, 16 more

through Proto-West Germanic *dal ‘valley, dale’

dale, 16 more

through German Taler

thaler, 20 more

through English dollar

tala, dala, 15 more

Today it means

noun Money earned from agriculture.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *dalą / agridollar

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