v. Obs. [Known in northern ME. only in Hampole; app. the same as mod. Sc. TAIGLE, q.v. Prob. of Scand. origin, and cognate with Sw. dial. (Bornholm) taggla to disarrange, bring into disorder.
In the quots. from the Prose Treatises of Hampole only tagil, tagyl are cited. In the Psalter (ed. Bramley 1884), in Ps. xxxix. 16, 2 MSS., including N., which best represents the original, have tagild; 8 later MSS. have tangiid, -gyld, -glyd, -glid, -gled, -geled. In Ibid., Abacuc 31, MS. N. again has tagild; 3 MSS. have takyld, takild, 2 tackid, 2 tangild, taglid. Evidently, tagild was the original word, takild perh. a scribal, and tangild a nasalized phonetic variant. Tagil appears to be preserved in the Sc. TAIGLE v.; the nasalized form remains in TANGLE v., q.v.]
trans. To entangle, to involve or engage in things that embarrass or encumber.
a. 1340. Hampole, Ps. xxxix. 16 (MS. N.). Na man may wit hou many vices ar þat men ar tagild with. [So MS. S.; MSS. U. & L. tangild; Laud 321 tangyld, Magd. Coll. 52 & Laud 418 tanglid, Bodl. 953 tanglyd, Tanner 1 tangled, Univ. Coll. LVI tangeled; Bodl. 467 snaryd.] Ibid., Abacuc, 31 (N.). Swa þaire affecciouns ar ay tagild with som lufe þat drawes þame fra godds lufe. [MSS. U. & Laud 286 takíld, S. takyld; Tanner 1 tangild, Laud 448 tanglid, Bodl. 288 & 877 tackid, Bodl. 953 medelid.] Ibid. (c. 1340), Prose Tr., 12. All delytes of all thyngez þat mane may be tagyld with in thoghte or dede. Ibid., 13. Withowttene tagillynge of oþer thynges.
