Etymology

enfiled

E1N1F4I1L1E1D2

Today it means: Having an object, such as the head of a man or animal, impaled on it. Full definition →

French enfiler
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. French · derived fromenfiler“to pierce, thread”
  2. English todayenfiled

French enfiler (“to pierce, thread”).

Words from the same roots

Frenchenfiler all →

enfile

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.