Etymograph

English

fag-end

From fag (“cigarette”) + end.

A compound of fag ‘cigarette’ + end

English end ‘remnant’

English fag

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- ‘face, forehead, front’

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Proto-Germanic *andijaz ‘end’

Proto-West Germanic *andī ‘end’

Old English ende ‘end’

Middle English ende ‘end’

English end

Today it means

noun The unsmoked end of a cigarette or cigar.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / fag-end