Obs. In 3 to tagge, (to tage). [app. TO-1 + tagge, TAG sb. pendant or addition, or v. to append. But the simple sb. and vb. are not known bef. c. 1400, and then not in abstract sense.
It is to be remembered however that tag was prob. a word not likely to occur in literature; and that there are other words in which the compound with to- is known much earlier than the simple word, e.g., to-crush, to-touse.]
Something ‘tagged’ or attached to a fact; a circumstance.
c. 12[?]. Ancr. R., 316 (Corpus MS.). Six þinges O Latin circumstances: On Englisch to tagges mahe beon iclcopede [MS. Cott. Nero On Englisch heo muwen beon ihoten to-tagges: persone, stude, time, manere, tale, cause]. Ibid., 346. Þurh sum uuel to tagge þe lið þer biseden. Ibid. Efter þe to tagges [Nero circumstances] þe beoð iwriten þruppe. [So in 8 instances in Corpus, in 2 of which Cott. Nero has circumstances without a gloss.]
