Where does “spiketail” come from?
spiketail (English) comes from English Spike, from Middle Dutch spīker, from Old Dutch spīkāri, from Proto-West Germanic spīkārī, from Latin spicarium, from Latin -ārium, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om.
spiketail (English): The pintail duck
Ancestry of “spiketail”, step by step