Where does “snaggle” come from?

snaggle (English) comes from English Le, from French lé, from French moine, from Middle French moine, from Old French monie, from Latin monicus — sporadically attested in early Christian inscriptions from Gaul.

snaggle (English): A tangled, knotted, or intertwined mass; To...

Definitions

  1. A tangled, knotted, or intertwined mass; To...

Ancestry of “snaggle”, step by step

snaggle traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English Le

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishLethe
2Frenchlébreadth, width; strip, length
3Frenchmoinemonk
4Middle Frenchmoinemonk
5Old Frenchmoniemonk
6Latinmonicussporadically attested in early Christian inscriptions from Gaul

via English snag

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsnagA stump or base of a branch that has been lopped...
2Old Norsesnagiclothes peg
3Proto-Germanicsnakk-—
4Proto-Germanicsnakanąto crawl
5Proto-Indo-Europeansneg-to crawl, creeping thing

Words derived from “snaggle”

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