The story
- French · derived fromtailler“to cut”
- English todaytailzie
From French tailler (“to cut”). See tail (“a limitation”). For the z, compare etymology of English Mackenzie.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
tailzie
Today it means: An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted. Full definition →
French tailler