table
TAY-buhl · noun
Origin
From Middle English table, from Old English tabele/tabul ("board"), itself an early Germanic borrowing of Latin tabula ("tablet, board, plank, chart"). The furniture sense comes instead from Old French table, of the same Latin root.
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Journey
Old English already had this Latin borrowing but used it for flat boards or tablets, not furniture — for that, speakers said bēod or bord. The piece-of-furniture meaning arrived later through Old French, eventually pushing out the old native words for it.
Related words
It's a doublet of tabula and tavla, both descending from the same Latin source word.