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Re: German words for "number"
Posted:
Feb 18, 1999 12:57 PM
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In article <omogmr3jz2.fsf@nala.cs.utk.edu>,
Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout@nala.cs.utk.edu> wrote:
>Where (imho) "tal" (and hence presumable "Zahl" which has the same Latin
>root -- is there really no English word from that root? Yup. Just thought
>of one: "tally".) have the connotation of giving the number
>of elements in some set.
"Tal" is the German word for "valley." In a place called Joachim's
Valley (Joachimstal) they orginated a form of money which was called a
"Joachimstaler," or "Taler" for short.
The English cognate is "dollar."
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Dave Seaman dseaman@purdue.edu
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