Now n.w. dial. Forms: 1 tænil, -el, tenil; 5 tenel; 9 teanal(e, teanel, tennil. [OE. tǽnil, -el = MHG. zeinel, deriv. of OTeut. *tainjā, in Goth. tainjô wicker basket, OHG. zeinnâ, zeinâ, MHG. zeine weak fem., ON. *teina, pl. teinur basket, creel; deriv. of *tainoz, ON. teinn (:—teinr), OE. tán, OHG. zein twig, osier-wand.] A basket.

1

a. 700.  Epinal Gloss. (O.E.T.), 403. Fiscilla, taenil.

2

a. 800.  Erfurt Gloss., 403. Fiscella, tenil.

3

c. 1000.  Ælfric, Saints’ Lives (1890), II. 44. Him on hand ʓenam ænne lytelne tænel mid caricum ʓefylledne.

4

a. 1100.  Ags. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 336/9. Sportella, tænel.

5

c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 489/1. Tenel, or crele, cartallus. Ibid. Tenel, vessel, tenella.

6

1869.  Lonsdale Gloss., Teanel, an osier fish-basket.

7

1882.  Lancs. Gloss., Tennil, a large basket.

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