talg

Betekenis (Engels)

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

Synoniemen

kaarsvet

reuzel

smeer

talk

Vertalingen

Talg

tallow

suet

sebo

sebo

suif

Schmalz

sego

sèu

sebum

Rindernierenfett

sébum

sebum

grafting wax

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/tɑlx/

Etymologie (Engels)

Geleend van Duits: Talg

Overgenomen van Middelnederlands: 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.