Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca. · An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails; a strand of material hanging from something. · The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything. · The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *taglą Proto-West Germanic *tagl Old English tæġl Middle English tayl English tail From Middle English tail, taile, taille, tayil, tayl, tayle, tayll, teil, tæȝel, from Old English tæġel, tæġl (“tail”), from Proto-West Germanic *tagl, from Proto-Germanic *taglą (“hair, fiber; hair of a tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ- (“hair of the tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to tear, fray, shred”). Cognates Cognate with German Zagel (“tail”), Danish, Faroese, and Icelandic tagl (“tail”), Swedish tagel (“horsehair”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐌻 (tagl, “hair”); also Serbo-Croatian дла̏ка, dlȁka (“single hair”), Slovene dlaka (“single hair”), Northern Kurdish dezî (“cotton, thread”), Sanskrit दशा (daśā, “border, fringe, hem”). In some senses, apparently by a generalization of the usual opposition between head and tail.
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- Inherited-form mentiontailenm
- Inherited-form mentiontæġelang
- Inherited-form mention*taglgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*taglągem-pro · hair, fiber; hair of a tail
- Derivation mention*doḱ-ine-pro · hair of the tail
- Derivation mention*deḱ-ine-pro · to tear, fray, shred
- Cognate mentionZagelde · tail
- Cognate mentiontagelsv · horsehair
- Cognate mention𐍄𐌰𐌲𐌻got · hair
- Cognate mentionдла̏каsh
- Cognate mentiondlakasl · single hair
- Cognate mentiondezîkmr · cotton, thread
- Cognate mentionदशाsa · border, fringe, hem
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