English
talin
Talin comes from Latin tālus ‘ankle’, and goes back to Proto-Italic *tākslos.
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*tākslos1reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtālus2‘ankle’
- Englishearliest quotation 2015talin2
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, Latin talus
- 2 Wiktionary, English talin
- Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2015, Labeo rohita (Hamilton)”: “Talin showed two isoforms in rohu, where as talin-1…”.
Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.
Lineage
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*tākslosWiktionary, Latin talusreconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEtālusWiktionary, English talin‘ankle’
- Englishearliest quotation 2015talinWiktionary, English talin. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2015, Labeo rohita (Hamilton)”: “Talin showed two isoforms in rohu, where as talin-1…”
Formed from in
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’
Proto-Germanic *in
Proto-West Germanic *in
Old English in
Middle English in ‘inside’
English in
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- ‘to touch’
contact, taste, integrity, integrate, contingent, tangible, tame, contiguous, taxis, attain, tangent, taxonomy, tactile, contagion, tact, contaminate, tama, ataxia, thwack, 29 more
through Latin tālus ‘ankle’
Today it means
noun Any of a group of cytoskeletal proteins
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “talin”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin talus. 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-Italic *tākslos / talin