talus.
ankle; ankle/pastern bone; sheep knucklebone (marked for dice); dice game (pl.);
Meaning & usage
the ankle or anklebone (of animals), talus; knucklebone
an oblong die rounded at its ends and only marked on its other four sides
the heel
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- Proto-Indo-European *téh₂g-s-los? Proto-Italic *tākslos Latin talus From Proto-Italic *tākslos, with multiple theories proposed: * Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *téh₂g-s-los, from *teh₂g- (“to touch”) (whence tangō). * Alternatively, cognate with Sanskrit तल (tala, “plane, surface”). * From *steh₂- (“to stand”) + *-tleh₂/*-dʰleh₂ (instrument noun suffix), and directly cognate with Welsh sawdl (“heel”). This is phonetically difficult, as it requires an s-less variant of *steh₂-, as well as addition of an unknown and arbitrary suffix *-k-.
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