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[Fredrik]

Today I think could also be 'himma daga'.
Good morning I usaly use godana maurgin (in analogy with german guten 
morgen), but god maurgin could perhaps work too.
Tagl, I think mean hair. I don't know if it's all kinds of hair or just 
body hair...i think i once read in the gothic bible that a guy hade 
cloths of camel hair, and then the word tagl was used.
A word for tail could be made from the root sterta- 
(http://runeberg.org/svetym/0961.html), but maybe this means butt 
instead, i dunno.
Sail as noun is probably derived from pgmc segla- and in that case I'd 
guess the gothic word would be sigls and the verb perhaps siglan or 
smth like that.

Mail: I have no good suggestion myself, but take a look at this:
(http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=mail&searchmode=none)
"post, letters," c.1205, "a traveling bag," from O.Fr. male "wallet, 
bag," from Frank. *malha, from P.Gmc. *malho- (cf. O.H.G. 
malaha "wallet, bag," M.Du. male "bag"), from PIE *molko- "skin, bag." 
Sense extension to "letters and parcels" (18c.) is via "bag full of 
letter" (1654) or "person or vehicle who carries postal matter" (1654). 
In 19c. England, mail was letters going abroad, while home dispatches 
were post. Sense of "personal batch of letters" is from 1844, 
originally Amer.Eng. Mailman is from 1881; mail-order is from 1875. The 
verb is 1828, Amer.Eng. E-mail is from 1982, shortened from electronic 
mail (1977); this led to the contemptuous application of snail mail 
(1983) to the old system. 

Pail: The same thing here, no good suggestion, but look here:
1392, from O.Fr. paielle "warming pan, liquid measure, bath," possibly 
from L. patella "small pan, dish," dim. of patina "broad shallow pan." 
O.E. had pægel "wine vessel," but etymology does not support a 
connection. This word is possibly from M.L. pagella "a measure," from 
L. pagella "column," dim. of pagina (see page (1)). 


 







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