talg

Meaning

1. (masculine,uncountable) sebum; skin fat
2. (masculine,uncountable) tallow

Concepts

tallow

suet

sebum

candle

🕯️

bread pudding

grafting wax

Synonyms

kaarsvet

reuzel

smeer

talk

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɑlx/

Etymology

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.