dail-

To divide. Northern Indo-European root extended from *da(ə)i- (see dā-).

1. deal¹, from Old English dǣlan, to share, from Germanic *dailjan.

2.

a. dole¹, from Old English dāl, portion, lot;

b. filler², from Old High German teil, part. Both a and b from Germanic *dailaz.

3. ordeal, from Old English ordāl, trial by ordeal, from Germanic prefixed form *uz-dailjam, “a portioning out,” judgment (*uz-, out; see ud-).

4. firkin, from Middle Dutch deel, part, from Germanic *dailiz.

 

[In Pokorny dā : də- 175.]

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