Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/talentā

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Proto-West Germanic

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin talenta, plural of talentum (“talent”).

Noun

*talentā f

(Christianity) talent (money, weight)

Declension

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*talentā
Genitive	*talentōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*talentā	*talentōn
Accusative	*talentōn	*talentōn
Genitive	*talentōn	*talentōnō
Dative	*talentōn	talentōm, talentum
Instrumental	*talentōn	talentōm, talentum

Descendants

Old English: talente
- Middle English: talent, taland, talande, talant, talente (reinforced by Old French)
  - English: talent
  - Scots: talent
Old Saxon: *talenta
- Middle Low German: tālent
Old Dutch: *talenta
- Middle Dutch: talent (reinforced by Old French)
  - Dutch: talent
Old High German: talenta

de Vries, Jan (1971) “talent”, in Nederlands etymologisch woordenboek [Dutch etymological dictionary] (in Dutch), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN
van Veen, P.A.F., van der Sijs, Nicoline (1997) “talent”, in Etymologisch woordenboek: de herkomst van onze woorden (in Dutch), Utrecht, Antwerpen: Van Dale Lexicografie, →ISBN
Durkin, Philip (2014) Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 118

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Noun

Declension

Descendants

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