Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11日前TIL the word dollar came from a combination of Jesus' grandfathers name and the German word for valley.www.saturdayeveningpost.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down15
arrow-up148arrow-down1external-linkTIL the word dollar came from a combination of Jesus' grandfathers name and the German word for valley.www.saturdayeveningpost.comQuilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11日前message-square4fedilink
minus-squareAnomalocaris@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up67arrow-down1·edit-211日前there was a silver mine in a town named Joachimsthal (The valley of Joachim who was Jesus’s grandpa). they minted coins which were named Joachimsthaler in singular. the name was eventually bastardised into Thaler or dollar. y’all welcome
minus-squarehsdkfr734r@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down1·edit-211日前 Joachimsthaller Please don’t. One L is enough. …It is complicated: Joachimsthaler (Joachimstaler since the 1900s). Thank you. ;) TIL that the original meaning of the word Taler is “from the valley” (Tal).
there was a silver mine in a town named Joachimsthal (The valley of Joachim who was Jesus’s grandpa).
they minted coins which were named Joachimsthaler in singular.
the name was eventually bastardised into Thaler or dollar.
y’all welcome
Please don’t. One L is enough. …It is complicated: Joachimsthaler (Joachimstaler since the 1900s). Thank you. ;)
TIL that the original meaning of the word Taler is “from the valley” (Tal).