English

kicktail

From kick + tail.

A compound of kick + tail

Proto-Germanic *kaikaz ‘bent backwards’

Old Norse kikna ‘to sink at the knees’

Middle English kyken ‘to strike out with the foot’

English kick

Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- ‘to tear, fray, shred’

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Proto-Germanic *taglą ‘hair, fiber’

Proto-West Germanic *tagl

Old English tæġel

Middle English tail

English tail

Today it means

noun The upwards-bent tip of the deck of a skateboard.

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

Etymograph / kicktail