talpă
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown.
Related with regional Serbo-Croatian tȃlpa / tȃlpa (“plank”), Macedonian талпа (talpa, “plank”), dialectal Bulgarian та́лпа (tálpa, “thick or broad plank, board”), Hungarian talp (“sole”), dialectal Russian те́льпа (télʹpa, “sled or sledge or sleigh with two skids, or one without skids running only on boards”), тельпу́х (telʹpúx, “block or stump from a tree”). Also may be related to Friulian talpe (“paw”). talpinà, talpetà (“to stamp”), Valsugan talpa, talpón (“tree stump”), Venetan and Padovan talpón (“tree stump or rootstock”), and further to be compared to Alemannic German Talpe (“paw”), Silesian German Talpe (“hand”), Thuringian Talpe, Talpsche (“great hand”), talpen (“to walk clumsily; to grab clumsily”), talfern (“to touch with little dexterity”), Middle High German tâpe, talpe (“paw”), Alemannic German antalpen (“to touch with little dexterity”), antapen (“to paw, to grope”), Bavarian Tälpen (“rootstocks”).
Could also be connected to German tappen, English tap, due to a connection to a body part. With such nativity in Germanic the Romanian, Hungarian, and Slavic terms however are frequently ascribed to a dark substrate, so a Gepidic or else East Germanic may be the source. The Slavic terms however are accordingly from Romanian.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]talpă f (plural tălpi)
- sole of the foot
- lower parts of a technical applications that bear load
- (figurative) fundament or basic constituent, pillar
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | talpă | talpa | tălpi | tălpile | |
genitive-dative | tălpi | tălpii | tălpi | tălpilor | |
vocative | talpă, talpo | tălpilor |
Derived terms
[edit]- talpa-cocoșului (“goldilocks buttercup, Ranunculus auricomus”)
- talpa-gâștei (“goosefoot, chenopod”)
- talpa-lupului (“motherwort, Leonurus cardiaca”)
- talpa-ursului (“Acanthus longifolius”)
- talpa-stâncii, talpa-stancei (“Lepidium coronopus”)
- tălpită, tălpig (“loom treadle”)
- tălpălagă, tăpălagă (“plump foot or shoe”)
References
[edit]- talpă in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
- Leschber, Corinna (2006) “Etymologisch problematische Bezeichnungen für ‘Stöcke, Strünke, Balken, Schnäbel’ u.ä. im Rumänischen im Lichte der slavischen Nachbarsprachen. Mit einem Exkurs zur modernen Protobulgaren-Diskussion”, in Wolfgang Dahmen, Günter Holtus, Johannes Kramer, Michael Metzeltin, Wolfgang Schweickard, Otto Winkelmann, editors, Lexikalischer Sprachkontakt in Südosteuropa. Romanistisches Kolloquium XII (Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik; 447) (in German), Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, →ISBN, pages 106–113
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