English
teilzone
Teilzone comes from German Teil ‘part, piece’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *dailiz.
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*dailiz‘part, portion, deal’reconstructed
- Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*daili‘part’reconstructed
- Old High Germanc. 750–1050teil
- Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350same form
- Germanc. 1650–presentTeil‘part, piece’
- Englishtodayteilzone
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*dailiz‘part, portion, deal’reconstructed
- Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*daili‘part’reconstructed
- Old High Germanc. 750–1050teil
- Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350same form
- Germanc. 1650–presentTeil‘part, piece’
- Englishtodayteilzone
The story
Coined in 1914 by German paleontologist and geologist Josef Felix Pompeckj.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ‘to put, do’
do, fact, hot, fair, defense, fan, feature, mid, benefit, fashion, theme, defence, custom, ethnic, sufficient, treasury, treasure, ethical, thesis, aesthetic, defendant, feast, synthetic, theology, doom, tick, deed, dis, ethic, auditorium, auditor, atheist, demi, deem, spade, thematic, ethos, feral, atheism, fanatic, 128 more
through Proto-Germanic *dailiz ‘part, portion, deal’
through Proto-West Germanic *daili ‘part’
Today it means
noun The stratigraphic range of the rock unit between the first and last appearance datum of a particular taxon in a local area, a subset of the global biozone for that taxon.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *dailiz / teilzone