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tamal (1) m. (Noun) "tamale" 16th cent. From Nahuatl tamalli "bread made of steamed corn meal," "small cake" (but lit. "wrapped"). According to Parodi (2006), one of the first loanwords from Nahuatl into Spanish. Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.
tamal (2) m. (Noun) (Nicaragua & El Salvador) "thief" Uncertain origin. Perhaps a semantic extension of tamal (1). Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.
tamaño m. (Adjective, Noun) "big;" "size" 11th cent. Old Spanish tamanno. An adjectival from the Latin phrase tam magnus "so great." For the etymology of tam, see tan; for the etymology of magnus, see magno. Indo-European Romance Asturian tamañu, Portuguese tamanho, Galician tamaño Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
támara (1) f. (Noun) "date palm" Early 17th cent. From Andalusian Arabic támra "date," from Arabic tamrah 'id.' Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.
támara (2) f. (Noun) "bundle of sticks," (kindling) "faggot" 10th cent. Of unknown origin. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *termina "bundle of sticks," from Latin termes "branch." See Barrado (1985). Indo-European Romance Galician támara Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman. Online. Ed. by É. Buchi & W. Schweickard. 2018. http://www.atilf.fr/DERom. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
tamaral f. (Noun) (Zamora) "thicket" 16th cent. Derived from támara (2). Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.
también (Adverb) "also" 13th cent. From tan and bien. Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.
tampoco (Adverb) "neither" 13th cent. From tan and poco. Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.
tañer (Verb) (music) "to play" 12th cent. Originally meaning "to touch." The sense development parallels tocar. From Latin tangere "to touch." From Proto-Italic *tang-e- 'id.' From Proto-Indo-European *th₂-n̥-g- 'id.' From the root *teh₂g- of the same meaning. Indo-European Romance Portuguese tanger, Italian tangere Italic Umbrian antakres "by the untouched" Germanic Gothic tekan "to touch," Old Norse taka "to take," "to touch," English to take Hellenic Ancient Greek τεταγών (tetagón) "having seized" Tocharian B ceśäṃ "to touch" Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. de Vaan, M. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and Other Italic Languages. BRILL. 2014. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
tanga (1) f. (Noun) "disc used in quoits," "quoits" From tango (1). Also the origin of tanguilla, a diminutive derived from tanga. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.