Etymograph

English

latten

Latten comes from Arabic لَاطُون ‘copper, copper alloy’, and goes back to Proto-Common Turkic *altun ‘gold’.

  1. Proto-Common Turkicprehistoric (reconstructed)*altun‘gold’reconstructed
  2. Arabicc. 500–presentلَاطُونlāṭūn‘copper, copper alloy’
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400laton
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500laten
  5. Englishtodaylatten

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Common Turkicprehistoric (reconstructed)*altun‘gold’reconstructed
  2. Arabicc. 500–presentلَاطُونlāṭūn‘copper, copper alloy’
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400laton
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500laten
  5. Englishtodaylatten

Every English word from Proto-Common Turkic *altun

Today it means

noun An alloy of copper and tin, similar to bronze, with a sufficient portion of tin to make it a pewter-like color with yellowish tinge (rather than the brownish-gold color of bronze of higher copper content), once used in thin sheets and for domestic utensils and light-duty tools.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Common Turkic *altun / latten

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