Etymograph

English

taille

Taille comes from Middle French taille ‘cut’.

  1. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600taille1‘cut’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2002taille1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English taille
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation: “The main royal tax was the taille, a tax…”.

Lineage

  1. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600tailleWiktionary, English taille‘cut’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2002tailleWiktionary, English taille. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation: “The main royal tax was the taille, a tax…”

Every English word from Middle French taille

Today it means

noun A form of taxation levied on the land of peasants in pre-Revolutionary France.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “taille”. 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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