Etymology

megadollar

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Today it means: Of a million dollars or more. Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-Indo-European*méǵh₂s
  2. Proto-Hellenic*mégas
  3. Ancient Greekμέγᾰς (mégăs)
  4. Englishmega-
  5. Proto-Germanic*dalą
  6. Proto-West Germanic*dal
  7. Old High Germantal
  8. Middle High Germantal
  9. GermanTal
  10. GermanTaler
  11. Middle Low Germandāler
  12. Dutchdaler
  13. Englishdollar
  14. English todaymegadollar

From mega- + dollar.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.