English
tag
Tag comes from Middle English tagge ‘small piece hanging from a garment’.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500tagge‘small piece hanging from a garment’
- Englishearliest quotation 1596tag
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500tagge‘small piece hanging from a garment’
- Englishearliest quotation 1596tag
Earliest quotation: 1596, Edmund Spenser: “For upon the like Proclamation there, they all came…”
Every English word from Middle English tagge
Another origin of tag
- Parthianmodern*𐫤𐫀𐫃reconstructed
- Aramaicc. 1000 BCE–700 CEתגאtaga‘crown’
- Englishtodaytag
Today it means
noun A small label.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English tagge / tag