Where does “tegel” come from?
tegel (Middle Dutch) comes from Old Dutch tegela, from Proto-Germanic *tigulā, from Proto-Germanic tigulǭ, from Latin tēgula, from Latin tegō, from Proto-Italic tegō, from Proto-Indo-European (s)teg- — to cover; pole, stick, beam.
Ancestry of “tegel”, step by step
Words derived from “tegel”