The story
- German · derived fromReichsthaler
- Dutch · borrowed fromrijcksdaler
- English todayrix-dollar
Borrowed from obsolete Dutch rijcksdaler (modern rijksdaalder), after early modern German Reichsthaler.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Today it means: A silver coin and money of account in use from the late-16ᵗʰ to the mid-19ᵗʰ centuries in the European Teutonic countries and their imperial trading networks. Full definition →
Dutch rijcksdaler ← German Reichsthaler