Etymograph

English

teilzone

Teilzone comes from German Teil ‘part, piece’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *dailiz.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*dailiz1‘part, portion, deal’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*daili2‘part’reconstructed
  3. Old High Germanc. 750–1050teil2
  4. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350teil2
  5. Germanc. 1650–presentTeil3‘part, piece’
  6. Englishtodayteilzone3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Proto-West Germanic *daili
  2. 2 Wiktionary, German Teil
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English teilzone

Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*dailizWiktionary, Proto-West Germanic *daili‘part, portion, deal’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*dailiWiktionary, German Teil‘part’reconstructed
  3. Old High Germanc. 750–1050teilWiktionary, German Teil
  4. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350teilWiktionary, German Teil
  5. Germanc. 1650–presentTeilWiktionary, English teilzone‘part, piece’
  6. EnglishtodayteilzoneWiktionary, English teilzone

The story

Coined in 1914 by German paleontologist and geologist Josef Felix Pompeckj.

Full etymology on Wiktionary

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ‘to put, do’

do, fact, hot, fair, defense, fan, feature, mid, benefit, fashion, theme, defence, custom, ethnic, sufficient, treasury, treasure, ethical, thesis, aesthetic, defendant, feast, synthetic, theology, doom, tick, deed, dis, ethic, auditorium, auditor, atheist, demi, deem, spade, thematic, ethos, feral, atheism, fanatic, 126 more

through Proto-Germanic *dailiz ‘part, portion, deal’

dealer, 2 more

through Proto-West Germanic *daili ‘part’

deal, 1 more

Today it means

noun The stratigraphic range of the rock unit between the first and last appearance datum of a particular taxon in a local area, a subset of the global biozone for that taxon.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “teilzone”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Proto-West Germanic *daili, German Teil. 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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