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Middle English
- talew, talgh, talghe, tallowe, talou, talogh, talowe, talowgh, talowȝ, talowh, talugh, taluȝ, talwe, talwgh, talwȝ, talwhe
Etymology
From Old English *tealg, *tealh, from Proto-West Germanic *talg, from Proto-Germanic *talgaz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dolgʰos.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtalɔu̯/, /ˈtaliu̯/, /talx/
Noun
talow (uncountable)
- suet (the adipose tissues of an animal).
- tallow (in cooking, candlemaking, and greasing)
- (rare) The inner matter of a seed.
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