English
talus
Talus comes from Latin tālus ‘the ankle or anklebone (of animals), talus’, and goes back to Proto-Italic *tākslos.
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*tākslosreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtālus‘the ankle or anklebone (of animals), talus’
- Englishtodaytalus
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*tākslosreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtālus‘the ankle or anklebone (of animals), talus’
- Englishtodaytalus
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- ‘to touch’
contact, taste, integrity, integrate, contingent, tangible, attain, tame, taxis, contiguous, tangent, taxonomy, tactile, contagion, tact, contaminate, tama, ataxia, thwack, 30 more
through Latin tālus ‘the ankle or anklebone (of animals), talus’
Another origin of talus
- Proto-Celticc. 1300–800 BCE*talu‘front’uncertain
- Gaulishc. 500 BCE–500 CE*talutum‘slope’uncertain
- Frenchc. 1600–presenttalus‘slope, embankment’
- Englishtodaytalus
Today it means
noun The bone of the ankle.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Italic *tākslos / talus