Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoTIL the word dollar came from a combination of Jesus' grandfathers name and the German word for valley.www.saturdayeveningpost.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up156arrow-down15
arrow-up151arrow-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 · 3 days agomessage-square4fedilink
minus-squareAnomalocaris@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up67arrow-down1·edit-23 days agothere 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 Thaller or dollar. y’all welcome
minus-squarehsdkfr734r@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down1·edit-23 days ago 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 Thaller 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).