Etymology

taileron

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Today it means: A kind of tailplane or stabilator that can move differentially to perform the roll control function of an aileron. Full definition →

English aileron ← French aileron ← Middle French aisle
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*taglą
  2. Proto-West Germanic*tagl
  3. Old Englishtæġl
  4. Middle Englishtayl
  5. Englishtail
  6. Proto-Indo-European*h₂eǵ-?
  7. Proto-Indo-European*h₂eḱs-
  8. Proto-Italic*aksis
  9. Latinaxis
  10. Latin*axla
  11. Latināla
  12. Old Frenchaile
  13. Middle Frenchaisle
  14. Frenchaile
  15. Frenchaileron
  16. Englishaileron
  17. English todaytaileron

Blend of tail + aileron.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.