tafl.
chess
Meaning & usage
chess
any of a class of ancient Northern European two-player board games featuring a distinctive 2:1 ratio of playing pieces, with the addition of a kingpiece to the lesser side
A general term encompassing traditional board games, including games such as hnefatafl, chess, backgammon and mill.
Where this word comes from
From Old Norse tafl (“a board”), from Middle Low German taffel, tavele, from Old Saxon tafla, from Proto-West Germanic *tabulā, from Latin tabula (“a tablet; a board or plank”). Doublet of tabla, tafla, tefla, töfl.
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