Where does “tab” come from?

tab (Réunion Creole French) comes from French table, from Old French table, from Latin tabula, from Proto-Italic *taðlā — board.

tab (Réunion Creole French): table

Definitions

  1. table

Ancestry of “tab”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchtabletable; flat surface atop various objects; flat...
2Old Frenchtabletable
3Latintabulatablet, sometimes a tablet covered with wax for...
4Proto-Italic*taðlāboard
Every word from Proto-Italic *taðlā →