Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA division, a portion, a share, a part, a piece. · An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
From Middle English del, dele, from Old English dǣl (“part, share, portion”), from Proto-West Germanic *daili, from Proto-Germanic *dailiz (“part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰ(h₁)-oy-lo- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Scots dele (“part, portion”), West Frisian diel (“part, share”), Dutch deel (“part, share, portion”), German Teil (“part, portion, section”), Danish, Slovene, and Swedish del (“part”), Icelandic deila (“division, contention”), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍃 (dails, “portion”). Related to Old English dāl (“portion”). More at dole.
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- Inherited-form mentiondelenm
- Inherited-form mentiondǣlang · part, share, portion
- Inherited-form mention*dailigmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*dailizgem-pro · part, deal
- Cognate mentiondelesco
- Cognate mentiondielfy
- Cognate mentiondeelnl
- Cognate mentionTeilde
- Cognate mentiondeilais
- Cognate mention𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌻𐍃got
- Cognate mentiondālang
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