The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκέρκος“tail”
- English todaycercal
From Ancient Greek κέρκος (kérkos, “tail”) + -al. Compare cercus, from the same source but with a divergent meaning.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκέρκος all →
cercaria-cercouscercus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.