Etymology

lollar

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Today it means: a currency deposit recorded as a US dollar in the Lebanese banking system that cannot be withdrawn as such due to the Lebanese liquidity crisis, instead being available only for exchange for Lebanese pounds at massively reduced rates. Full definition →

English dollar ← Dutch daler ← Middle Low German dāler
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The story

  1. Biblical Hebrewלְבָנוֹן (ləḇānôn)
  2. EnglishLebanon
  3. Proto-Germanic*dalą
  4. Proto-West Germanic*dal
  5. Old High Germantal
  6. Middle High Germantal
  7. GermanTal
  8. GermanTaler
  9. Middle Low Germandāler
  10. Dutchdaler
  11. Englishdollar
  12. English todaylollar

Blend of Lebanon + dollar; coined by economist Dan Azzi in 2019.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.