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oa Zu althochdeutsch tegal und tegil
Aus der Arbeit am Etymologischen Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen
- Source: NOWELE. North-Western European Language Evolution, Volume 78, Issue 1, Oct 2025, p. 83 - 96
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Abstract
Abstract
The Old High German words tegal m. ‘tableware (of clay)’ and tegil m. ‘(melting) pot’ are generally seen as Romance loanwords. In the following it is shown that there is no need for this assumption because on the one hand Old High German tegal has a correspondence in Norn digel (in digel[s]mur ‘hard clayish ground’) and on the other hand the inherited words Icelandic deigla f. ‘(melting) pot’ and dialectal Norwegian deigla ‘id.’ show that a semantic development from ‘tableware (of clay)’ to ‘melting pot’ is possible.
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