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tabEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text

First attested 1607, of uncertain origin.

tabEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text

Apocopation (shortening) of (variously) tabulate, tabulator, or tabulation.

tabEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text

Likely to have been formed by clipping the Geordie pronunciation of the word tobacco or alternatively from the brand name Ogden's Tabs.

tabEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text

Clipping of tablature.

tabEnglish (en) · Etymology 5Source text

Clipping of Cantab, from Cantabrigian, from Latin Cantabrigia (“Cambridge”).

tabEnglish (en) · Etymology 6Source text

Clipping of tabloid.

tabEnglish (en) · Etymology 7Source text

Clipping of tablet.

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Chambers (1908)

1908

TabEnglish · e-38700-4206
Tab, tab, n. a small tag, flap, or strap, forming an appendage of something: reckoning, tally, check.
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53REVIEWED RESULTS

12WORD DOSSIERS

12HISTORICAL NODES

4SOURCES

21CLAIMS

4WITNESSES

MODERN ENTRY POINTS

WORD DOSSIERS

noun · adjective · verbheadword prefix

taboo

An English borrowing recorded in 1777 from Tongan tabu, now tapu, within an Oceanic family whose reconstructed form joins ritual restriction with sacredness.

noun · verbhistorical form

An Aboriginal Australian borrowing recorded in English by 1824. Dharug and Dharawal forms have been proposed, but the Australian National Dictionary Centre says the exact source language remains uncertain.

nouncontrarian claim

boy

A male child or young man; Middle English also used the word for a male servant or churl, and its origin remains disputed.

Middle Irish noundossier summary

cais

eDIL separates two Irish headwords written cais. The first, also recorded as caise, is explicitly explained both as love and as hate; its cited passages and glossary equations range from searc and grádh "love" to miscais and mioscais "hatred", with context deciding individual readings. One Éigse line is tentatively translated so that the same visible form occurs on both sides: "my love ... is met by hatred(?)". The question mark matters. The second eDIL headword cais means "eye" and is excluded from this semantic lineage. These records establish a remarkable lexicographic opposition, not one timeless essence, a chronology from love to hate, or proof that every occurrence belongs to one historically indivisible sense. John T. Koch compares the noun with Proto-Celtic *katsi- < *kad-t/si- and a wider *kad- family, but that ancestry and its proposed Germanic comparison remain open. eDIL itself generally supplies etymologies only selectively. No manuscript pixels were directly inspected, no earliest-use or historical-frequency claim is made, and no exact pronunciation is invented.

adjectivecontrarian claim

etymological

Of, relating to, or based on etymology; an Early Modern English adjective whose exact formation is described differently by major historical dictionaries.

Old Dutch masculine noundossier summary

fīunt

Old Dutch fīunt is the normalized headword behind a twenty-six-occurrence historical-dictionary record for enemy or opponent. ONW classifies the noun as synchronically unsegmented but says it was originally the present participle of the verb corresponding to Old High German fīēn and Gothic fijan, a verb no longer known in Dutch. Its frequency table preserves six case-number cells: nominative and genitive singular plus nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative plural. Those are not a complete paradigm. The article displays twenty representative location blocks after warning that locations in the semantic profile have been reduced. Most early Wachtendonck Psalms material is linguistically dated 901–1000 but survives in copies dated 1595–1605, circa 1598, or 1701–1800; no tenth-century manuscript object was inspected. One dfiunt or fiunt gloss aligned with Latin diabolus is textually disputed, and one Groningen psalm gloss is explicitly assigned to Old Frisian by the dictionary. This dossier therefore treats fīunt as a nominal fossil with a partially preserved inflectional record, not as a productive Old Dutch participle or a complete transparent paradigm.

nounhistorical form

girl

A female child or young woman; in Middle English the word could denote a child or young person of either sex.

Gothic class-II weak-verb lemmadossier summary

hatizōn

A Gothic weak verb meaning be angry with or at someone, represented by exactly one verified corpus token: present active second-person plural hatizoþ in John 7:23. Project Wulfila and Streitberg align the form with Greek χολᾶτε in the question “are you angry at me?” and analyze the verb with a dative object. The University of Texas derivational grammar builds class-II hatizōn on the consonantal stem hatiz- of hatis “hatred” or “wrath”; Wright independently lists it as a class-II weak verb. The macronized infinitive is a scholarly citation form, while the manuscript writes only the inflected token without a vowel-length mark. The route continues through the reviewed Germanic noun family and a qualified Indo-European comparison, then stops. One corpus token cannot establish spoken rarity, first use, a complete semantic range, exact pronunciation, or one prehistoric essence.

Old High German weak-verb citation formcontrarian claim

hazzōn

An Old High German citation form in the inherited Germanic hate-verb family, printed beside hazzēn and spelling variants hazēn, hazōn, haʒʒēn, and haʒʒōn. Starling’s source record dates hazzēn to the eighth century and hazzōn to the ninth; Duden and Grimm’s DWB group the ēn and ōn forms in the history of German hassen. Corpus-wide research independently shows that some Old High German class-III ēn verbs also occur with class-II ōn forms, but the accessible abstract does not establish that hazzōn is one of its twenty repeatedly attested double forms. DWB reports haʒôn aligned with Latin aemulari and the forms hatamas and hatent with insequamur and insequuntur. Those reports support an action range involving following or hostile pursuit; they are not directly inspected manuscript tokens. Pokorny’s account, as transmitted by Starling, explicitly warns that the Germanic evidence does not prove “pursue” was the root’s basic meaning. The route therefore distinguishes the normalized headword, the combined historical variants, the reconstructed Germanic weak verb and noun family, the qualified Indo-European comparison, and the point where knowledge ends.

Old Saxon masculine i-stem noundossier summary

heti

Old Saxon heti is an attested noun, not a reconstructed Proto-Germanic form. Köbler prints the normalized citation form hėti* with a trailing asterisk, then gives three cited lexical loci whose inflections produce five witness readings: accusative singular heti at Heliand 1322 in manuscripts M, C, and V; dative singular heti at Genesis 60; and genitive singular hetias in the tenth-century Saxon Confession. No nominative singular appears in that inventory, but the exact surface heti is visibly written in Munich Cgm 25. The directly inspected Heliand line places the noun in the Beatitudes, where righteous people endure rîkioro manno heti endi harmquidi, powerful men's hostility or persecution and hostile speech. The Saxon Confession instead places hetias beside malice, envy, and slander among confessed wrongs. Those contexts establish a range broader than one private feeling without proving that persecution was the prehistoric root meaning. Fulk and Köbler analyze the Old Saxon comparison as an i-stem; Pfeifer describes the wider Germanic noun as an old es/os-stem, so the inherited morphological account remains public rather than falsely harmonized.

noundossier summary

hospital

A medical institution whose name first referred to guest accommodation and charitable lodging, through Medieval Latin hospitāle.

nounhistorical form

hospitality

The reception and care of guests, inherited through French from the Latin reciprocal host-and-guest family.

ATTESTED / RECONSTRUCTED / BOUNDARY

HISTORICAL FORMS

taboo

a ritual or social prohibition; prohibited or set apart

DATE: 1777–today
MATCH: historical-form prefix
DOSSIERS: 1

Proto-Indo-European / Indo-European

Tongan / Austronesian

tabu / tapu

forbidden, prohibited, unlawful; historically also sacred or consecrated

DATE: Tongan
MATCH: historical-form prefix
DOSSIERS: 1

kʷē̆d- / kʷō̆d-

to bore, drill, prick, or stab; in Germanic reflexes, sharpen, whet, or incite

DATE: Pokorny Indo-European etymon
MATCH: gloss
DOSSIERS: 1

hospital

an institution for charitable residence and, later, medical care

DATE: 14th century–today
MATCH: gloss
DOSSIERS: 1

Anglo-French / Indo-European

hospital

guest lodging or charitable institution

DATE: Anglo-French
MATCH: gloss
DOSSIERS: 1

Middle English / Indo-European

hospital / ospitale

residence for pilgrims and travelers; charitable lodging for poor or infirm people

DATE: Middle English
MATCH: gloss
DOSSIERS: 1

Medieval Latin / Indo-European

hospitāle

guest accommodation; hospice or charitable lodging

DATE: Medieval Latin
MATCH: gloss
DOSSIERS: 3

Latin / Indo-European

hospitālis

of a guest; hospitable

DATE: Latin antiquity
MATCH: gloss
DOSSIERS: 4

hotel

a public lodging establishment, usually offering additional services

DATE: 1687–today
MATCH: gloss
DOSSIERS: 1

French / Indo-European

hôtel

hotel, mansion, or lodging establishment

DATE: French
MATCH: gloss
DOSSIERS: 1

kimchi

Korean fermented vegetable preparation

DATE: 1888–today
MATCH: gloss
DOSSIERS: 1