Etymology

tolar

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Today it means: A state currency formerly used by the Republic of Slovenia between 1991 and 2006, divided into 100 stotins. Full definition →

Slovene tolar ← German Taler
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The story

  1. German · derived fromTaler“made in Joachimstal”
  2. Slovene · borrowed fromtolar
  3. English todaytolar

From Slovene tolar, from German Taler (“made in Joachimstal”). Doublet of dollar and taler /thaler.

Words from the same roots

GermanTaler all →

dollartaler

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.