Etymograph

English

tailedness

From tailed + -ness.

Formed from tailed + -ness

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

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Proto-West Germanic *tagl ‘tail’

Old English tæġl ‘tail’

Middle English tayl ‘a tail’

Middle English tayled

English tailed

Today it means

noun The condition of a distribution in having a specified form of tail

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “tailedness”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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