cantle

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*ǵond-o-
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*kantaz“side (of the head?); cheek”
3. Latin · derived fromcantus“corner”
4. Medieval Latin · derived fromcantellus
5. Old French · derived fromchantel
6. Old Northern French · derived fromcantel
7. Middle English · inherited fromcantle, cantel
8. English todaycantle

From Middle English cantle, cantel, from Old Northern French cantel, Old French chantel (Modern French chanteau, Bourguignon chainteâ), from Medieval Latin cantellus, diminutive of Latin cantus (“corner”). Compare cant (Etymology 3). Kroonen instead connects this term with Dutch kant (“side; edge”) and German Kanz (“mane, upper part of the neck”), deriving them from a Proto-Germanic *kantaz (“side (of the head?); cheek”), connecting it to the Baltic words Lithuanian žandas (“cheek, jaw”) and Latvian zuods (“chin, jaw”), all from a hypothetical Proto-Indo-European *ǵond-o-.

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