Etymograph

English

dollarship

Dollarship comes from German Tal ‘valley’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *dalą.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*dalą1‘valley, dale’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*dal1‘valley, dale’reconstructed
  3. Old High Germanc. 750–1050tal1‘valley’
  4. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350tal1
  5. Germanc. 1650–presentTal1‘valley’
  6. Germanc. 1650–presentTaler1
  7. Middle Low Germanc. 1200–1600dāler1
  8. Dutchc. 1500–presentdaler1
  9. English1500–presentdollar1
  10. Englishearliest quotation 1970dollarship1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English dollarship
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1970, Wilshire's: “The Lord Norths of our day form steel trusts…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*daląWiktionary, English dollarship‘valley, dale’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*dalWiktionary, English dollarship‘valley, dale’reconstructed
  3. Old High Germanc. 750–1050talWiktionary, English dollarship‘valley’
  4. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350talWiktionary, English dollarship
  5. Germanc. 1650–presentTalWiktionary, English dollarship‘valley’
  6. Germanc. 1650–presentTalerWiktionary, English dollarship
  7. Middle Low Germanc. 1200–1600dālerWiktionary, English dollarship
  8. Dutchc. 1500–presentdalerWiktionary, English dollarship
  9. English1500–presentdollarWiktionary, English dollarship
  10. Englishearliest quotation 1970dollarshipWiktionary, English dollarship. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1970, Wilshire's: “The Lord Norths of our day form steel trusts…”

A compound of dollar + -ship

Proto-Germanic *dalą ‘valley’

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German Joachimsthaler ‘coin of (Sankt) Joachimsthal’

German Taler ‘thaler (coin)’

Middle Low German dāler

Dutch daalder ‘thaler’

English dollar

Linked words

through Proto-Germanic *dalą ‘valley, dale’

dell, dalles, 16 more

through Proto-West Germanic *dal ‘valley, dale’

dale, 16 more

through German Taler

thaler, 20 more

through English dollar

tala, dala, 15 more

Today it means

noun Monetary concerns; the power of money.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “dollarship”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *dalą / dollarship

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