talg

From Middle Low German talch, from Old Saxon *talg, from Proto-West Germanic *talg, from Proto-Germanic *talgaz.

• IPA^(key): /talˀj/, [t͡sʰælˀj]

talg c (singular definite talgen, not used in plural form)

1. tallow
2. suet

• “talg” in Den Danske Ordbog

• talk (only for “tallow”)

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.

• IPA^(key): /tɑlx/

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• Rhymes: -ɑlx

talg m (uncountable)

1. sebum; skin fat
2. tallow

   Synonym: ossenwit

• talgklier

• smout

From Old Norse tolg.

talg f or m (definite singular talga or talgen, uncountable)

1. tallow

• “talg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse tolg.

talg m (definite singular talgen, uncountable)
talg f (definite singular talga, uncountable)

1. tallow

• “talg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Swedish talgher, from Middle Low German talch, from Old Saxon *talg, from Proto-West Germanic *talg, from Proto-Germanic *talgaz.

talg c

1. tallow
2. suet
3. sebum

• njurtalg (“suet”)
• talgoxe (“great tit”)
• talgkörtel (“sebaceous gland”)

• talg in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• talg in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• talg in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)