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- Welsh · derived fromtawlfwrdd
- English todaythrowboard
From throw + board, a calque translation of the Welsh tawlfwrdd, from tawl (“a throw”) + bwrdd (“table", "board”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
throwboard
Today it means: A game played on an 11×11 board in medieval Wales, a Welsh variant of tafl. Full definition →
Welsh tawlfwrdd