Tiller Definition

Origin of Tiller

• From Middle English *tilȝer, *telȝer, from Old English telgor, telgra, telgre ("twig, branch, shoot") (also telga, telge (whence tillow)), from Proto-Germanic *telgô, *telgōn (“twig, branch"), from Proto-Indo-European *delgÊ°- (“to split, divide, cut, carve"). Cognate with Dutch telg (“descendant, scion, offshoot, shoot"), Dutch Low Saxon telge (“twig, branch"), German Zelge (“twig, branch, bough"), Swedish telning (“branch, scion, sapling"), Icelandic tág (“willow-twig").

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• Middle English tiler stock of a crossbow from Old French telier from Medieval Latin tēlārium weaver's beam from Latin tēla web, weaver's beam teks- in Indo-European roots

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• Anglo-Norman telier (“beam used in weaving"), from Medieval Latin telarium, from Latin tela (“web").

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• Middle English tiller from Old English telgor

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• From till +"Ž -er.

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