An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Dalles

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, D
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis

Dalles

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This annotated version expands the abbreviations in the original entry Dalles.

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2632795An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, D — DallesJohn Francis DavisFriedrich Kluge

Dalles, masculine, ‘destruction, ruin,’ Jewish; properly the Jewish winding-sheet worn on the great ‘day of atonement’ (hence originally ‘to wear the Dalles’); from Hebrew talîth. According to others, the word is based on Hebrew dallût, ‘poverty.’