Dollar
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Root
duri
mortar, bowl-shaped hollow
Dollar from a PIE hollow matched by Shona duri
- Confidence
- 72/100
- Root language
- Shona
- Descent begins
- dollarEnglish
The consensus position
Dollar is from German Thaler, short for Joachimsthaler ‘coin of Joachimsthal’, from Proto-Germanic *dalą ‘valley’ and ultimately Proto-Indo-European *dʰel- ‘hollow’.
The working behind this.
The full descent — 10 links from the attested form down to the root — the segment-by-segment correspondences, the phonological breakdown and the case for the derivation are behind an account.
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