talg

Signification (Anglais)

1. (masculine, no-diminutive, uncountable) sebum; skin fat
2. (masculine, no-diminutive, uncountable) tallow

Concepts

suif

sébum

graisse de rognon

Synonymes

kaarsvet

reuzel

smeer

talk

Traductions

tallow

Talg

suet

sebo

sebo

sèu

Schmalz

sego

sebum

Rindernierenfett

sebum

grasa

donyağı

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/tɑlx/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Emprunté à allemand: Talg

Hérité de moyen néerlandais: talch

In summary

Borrowed in the sense “sebum” in the early 20th century from German Talg (“tallow; sebum”), from Middle Low German talg, from Old Saxon *talg, from Proto-West Germanic *talg, from Proto-Germanic *talgaz.
For “tallow”, the standard Dutch form was talk, but the borrowed form is now preferred in this sense as well, probably in order to avoid the homophony with talk (“talc”). This development may have been reinforced by inherited dialectal forms with -g, from Middle Dutch talch, which had been unused in written Dutch since the 18th century.