You say tackle, I say...

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

Lots of English nautical terms seem to originate in ancient or medieval Dutch or have common origins. The Dutch equivalent for tackle is takel, which is pronounced 'taakel' with a long vowel, so this could indicate the taykel pronunciation may be older than 'tackel'
This is what I have found on the etymology of takel:
www.etymologiebank.nl › trefwoord › takel
earliest mention in 1396, originally a medieval Dutch word, later borrowed in English, German, Scandinavian languages

While watching subtitled programmes of Dutch and Flemish origin in the "Walter Presents" series I am sometimes surprised at how close these languages are to English. It is said that the dialect spoken in the Dutch province of West Frisia is actually the nearest Continental language to English.

 

[tillergirl]

 

[JumbleDuck]

While watching subtitled programmes of Dutch and Flemish origin in the "Walter Presents" series I am sometimes surprised at how close these languages are to English. It is said that the dialect spoken in the Dutch province of West Frisia is actually the nearest Continental language to English.

I've heard that Frisian is pretty close to Norfolk and that if it hadn't been for the Norman invasion, modern English would be very similar to modern Dutch. As it is, Dutch is just Scots with a German accent.

 

[Deleted member 36384]

I listened to all of that hoping to hear tackle or tay-kul, not sure my sensibilities have survived the experience.

 

[tidclacy]

Go to page 8.4
Interesting info on all things nautical as well
http://navybmr.com/study material/14343A.pdf

 

[Black Sheep]

(Go East)

Thanks for reminding me of that! A while since I last watched/heard it, and well worth revisiting!

 

[Bru]

While watching subtitled programmes of Dutch and Flemish origin in the "Walter Presents" series I am sometimes surprised at how close these languages are to English. It is said that the dialect spoken in the Dutch province of West Frisia is actually the nearest Continental language to English.

There's a very good reason for that, English, Dutch and German (amongst others) have a common root and Old English (the language of the Anglo-Saxons) was very close indeed, for obvious reasons, to the languages of the Saxons, Angles and Jutes. In particular, the Mercian dialect of Old English was very close to Frisian (and early forms thereof are often referred to as Anglo-Frisian which was, in various dialects, spoken on both sides of the North Sea).

Although the West Ssxon dialect of Old English was domianant in the Anglo-Saxon period, it was the Mercian dialect which is the primary root of Modern English

Old English (which is completely unreadable by a Modern English speaker without much tedious study - I've tried!) mutated into Middle English (the language of Chaucer) which was greatly simplified and heavily influenced by Anglo-Norman (a dialect of Old French) and recognisable by Modern English speakers. By the end of the Middle English period, the London dialect of Middle English became the de-facto standard and thus formed the basis of Standard Modern English

So there is a direct line of descent from the Frisian language of the 6th to 9th century and Modern English which, although heavily influenced by other languages and much modified along the way, is still fundamentally a variant of Frisian, itself a variant of West Germanic

 

[Lucy52]

What kind of a tackle only has one block anyway?

Change it for a handy billy. Ur some other purchase....

Usually called a Gin wheel.

 

[penberth3]

Usually called a Gin wheel.

Indeed, as featured in the Hoffnung monologue, Post #18.