Etymograph

English

superdollar

Superdollar 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. Englishtodaysuperdollar1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English superdollar

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*daląWiktionary, English superdollar‘valley, dale’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*dalWiktionary, English superdollar‘valley, dale’reconstructed
  3. Old High Germanc. 750–1050talWiktionary, English superdollar‘valley’
  4. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350talWiktionary, English superdollar
  5. Germanc. 1650–presentTalWiktionary, English superdollar‘valley’
  6. Germanc. 1650–presentTalerWiktionary, English superdollar
  7. Middle Low Germanc. 1200–1600dālerWiktionary, English superdollar
  8. Dutchc. 1500–presentdalerWiktionary, English superdollar
  9. English1500–presentdollarWiktionary, English superdollar
  10. EnglishtodaysuperdollarWiktionary, English superdollar

A compound of super- + dollar

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 A counterfeit United States $100 bill of very high quality.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “superdollar”. 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.

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