Where does “tafl” come from?

tafl (Old Norse) comes from Proto-West Germanic *tabulā, from Latin tabula, from Proto-Italic *taðlā — board.

tafl (Old Norse): any of a class of ancient Northern European...

Definitions

  1. any of a class of ancient Northern European...

Ancestry of “tafl”, step by step

tafl traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-West Germanic *tabulā

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanic*tabulātable
2Latintabulatablet, sometimes a tablet covered with wax for...
3Proto-Italic*taðlāboard

via Middle Low German taffel

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Low Germantaffel—

Words derived from “tafl”

Every word from Proto-Italic *taðlā →Every word from Latin tabula →Every word from Proto-West Germanic *tabulā →