The story
- Latin · borrowed fromsuffīgō“I fasten onto”
- English todaysuffigal
From the present stem of Latin suffīgō (“I fasten onto”) + -al. The formation on the Latin present stem is unusual; perhaps originally an innovation in German.
Words from the same roots
Latinsuffīgō all →
soffitsuffigation
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.