Etymograph

English

tallowy

Tallowy comes from Middle English talowy ‘fatty, tallowy’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *talgaz.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*talgaz‘tallow’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*talgreconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150*tealgreconstructed
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500talow‘tallow’
  5. Middle English, derivedc. 1150–1500talowy‘fatty, tallowy’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1934tallowy

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*talgaz‘tallow’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*talgreconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150*tealgreconstructed
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500talow‘tallow’
  5. Middle English, derivedc. 1150–1500talowy‘fatty, tallowy’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1934tallowy

Earliest quotation: 1934, George Orwell: “The sweat gleamed on his large, tallowy breasts.”

Formed from tallow + -y

Old English *tealh

Middle English talow

English tallow

Every English word from Proto-Germanic *talgaz

Today it means

adj Resembling tallow.

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

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *talgaz / tallowy

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