tawlfwrdd.
throwboard, a variant of the game tafl played on an 11×11 board in medieval Wales
Meaning & usage
throwboard, a variant of the game tafl played on an 11×11 board in medieval Wales
The Welsh Laws Tawlfwrdd chweugaint a dal ac fal hyn y rhenir: triugaint ar y werin wynion a thriugaint ar y brenin a'i werin. A throwboard's value is six score pence and is thus proportioned: three score on the white men and three score on the king and his men.
Where this word comes from
From a surface analysis, from tawl (“a throw; interruption”) + bwrdd (“table; board”), however, the word is also found in Old Norse taflborð, Old Swedish taflbordh, taffwellbord, where it consists of tafl (“board game”) and borð (“board”). Tafl derives from Latin tabula (“tablet”), but can also refer to a “move” in a board game, likewise the derivative tefla (“to game”), which may suggest an earlier intermixing with a verb root, cognate to Welsh tawl, such as Proto-Germanic *tablōną (“to grapple, fumble”), Old Norse dafla, Norwegian tafla, tavla, Swedish taffla, tavla (“to dabble”), frequentative of *tabōną (“to tap, dab, grope, finger”). Compare the sense of “interuption” to related Proto-Germanic *tabjaną (“to delay, to interupt”).
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