tiller

tiller · noun¹

1. Middle English · inherited fromtilier
2. English todaytiller

From Middle English tilier; equivalent to till + -er.

tiller · noun, verb²

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*delgʰ-“to split, divide, cut, carve”
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*telguz“twig, branch”
3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*telguʀ
4. Old English · inherited fromtelgor
5. Middle English · inherited fromtelȝre
6. English todaytiller

From Middle English telȝre, telgra, from Old English telgor, telgra, telgre ("twig, branch, shoot") (also telga, telge (whence tillow)), from Proto-West Germanic *telguʀ, from Proto-Germanic *telguz (“twig, branch”), from Proto-Indo-European *delgʰ- (“to split, divide, cut, carve”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tälge (“sapling”), Dutch telg (“descendant, scion, offshoot, shoot”), Dutch Low Saxon telge (“twig, branch”), German Zelge (“twig, branch, bough”), Swedish telning (“branch, scion, sapling”), Icelandic tág (“willow-twig”).

tiller · noun³

1. Latin · derived fromtēla“web”
2. Medieval Latin · derived fromtelarium
3. Anglo-Norman · derived fromtelier“beam used in weaving”
4. Middle English · inherited fromteler
5. English todaytiller

From Middle English teler, from Anglo-Norman telier (“beam used in weaving”), from Medieval Latin telarium, from Latin tēla (“web”).

Tiller · proper noun⁴

Capitalization of tiller

Words from the same roots