tæfl
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Old English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin tabula (“tablet, board, plank, chart”), ultimately from Proto-Italic *taðla. Cognate with Old Norse tafl (“board game”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tæfl f
- gameboard
- a board game
- a die used to play a game
References[edit]
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “tæfl”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.