Tassel

Morpheme

Tassel

Type

free base

Denotation

small cube

Etymology

Middle English tassel; Old French tassel; Latin tāxillus, from tālus + -illus

Evidence

betassel, tassel, tasseled, tasseling, tasselled, tasselling, tassels, tasselweed

Notes

<l> need not double (but can), especially with inflectional suffixes

See Also

Tale, -illus