tafl
Old Norse
noun
Definitions
- any of a class of ancient Northern European two-player board games featuring a distinctive 2:1 ratio of playing pieces, with the addition of a kingpiece to the lesser side
Etymology
Derived from Latin tabula (board, tablet, plank, table, a board plank, a tablet, chart, painting, playing board).
Origin
Latin
tabula
Gloss
board, tablet, plank, table, a board plank, a tablet, chart, painting, playing board
Concept
Semantic Field
The house
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
卓
Emoji
📋️ 🛹
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- tabula English
- tabula rasa English
- contabulo Latin
- tabella Latin
- tabula Latin
- tabularium Latin
- tabulatim Latin
- Tafel German
- tábla Hungarian
- tavola Italian
- tavolo Italian
- tafereel Dutch, Flemish
- tôle French
- entablar Spanish, Castilian
- tabla Spanish, Castilian
- τάβλα Ancient Greek
- *th₂-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European
- tavle Norwegian Bokmål
- tavla Swedish
- tavle Norwegian Nynorsk
- tabele Old English
- tafla Old Norse
- tefla Old Norse
- table Old French
- tabulo Esperanto
- taula Catalan, Valencian
- tafl Icelandic
- tafele Middle Dutch
- tavala Old High German
- talv Faroese
- talvfólk Faroese
- tavala Old Dutch
- tavoa Old Portuguese
- tavele Middle Low German
- taula Occitan
- tabla Asturian
- taule Friulian
- tàvula Sicilian
- toła Venetian
- taol Breton
- taula Basque
- tavola roa-oit