Old English · noun
tægl
Normalised tæġl
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- Declension
- strong a-stem
- IPA
- /tæjl/
- Syllables
- tæjl (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- tail
Meaning
-
tail
Declension
All forms (6)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *tagl, from Proto-Germanic *taglą, from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ-. Cognate with Middle Low German tagel (“twisted whip”), Old High German zagal (“animal’s tail”) (dialectal German Zagel), Old Norse tagl (“horse’s or cow’s tail”), Gothic (tagl, “hair of the head”); and, beyond Germanic, with Old Irish dūal (“lock of hair”).
Descendants
tail
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