Etymology

tjaele

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Today it means: frozen ground Full definition →

Swedish tjäle ← Old Swedish *þiæli ← Old Norse þeli
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*þelą
  2. Old Norse · derived fromþeli“frozen ground”
  3. Old Swedish · derived from*þiæli
  4. Swedish · borrowed fromtjäle
  5. English todaytjaele

Borrowed from Swedish tjäle, which is descended from Old Swedish *þiæli, from Old Norse þeli (“frozen ground”), which is related to þel (“nap on wool; underwool”), and ultimately from Proto-Germanic *þelą.

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