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Teig

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Greif mit deinen dreckigen Fingern nicht
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den Teig an
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Do not touch the dough with your dirty fingers.

dough, paste, pastry, batter (soft, at least partially cohesive mixture of ingredients, often including flour, intended to be baked, fried or cooked)

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Basel-Landschaft

daig

Graubünden

teig

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/taɪ̯k/

Inherited from Middle High German

Inherited from Old High German

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In summary

From Middle High German teic, from Old High German teig, teic (attested since the 9th century); from Proto-Germanic *daigaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, to mold, to form”). Cognate with English dough, Dutch deeg, Old English dāg, Old Norse deig (whence Icelandic deig, Faroese deiggj, Norwegian deig, Swedish deg, Danish dej), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌲𐍃 (daigs). Also compare Finnish taikina and Estonian taigen which appear to be early borrowings from Proto-Germanic. Non-Germanic cognates include Ancient Greek τεῖχος (teîkhos, “mound, fortification”), Latin fingō (“to shape, to form”) (compare fiction), Old Irish digen (“firm, solid”), Old Armenian դէզ (dēz, “pile, heap”), Sanskrit देह (deha, “body”), देग्धि (dégdhi, “to smear, to plaster”).