Etymograph

English

Legbar

From leg + bar.

A compound of leg + bar

Proto-Germanic *lagjaz ‘leg’

Old Norse leggr ‘leg’

Middle English leg ‘leg’

English leg

Vulgar Latin *barra

Old French barre ‘beam, bar, gate, barrier’

Middle English barre

English bar

Today it means

noun A rare British autosexing breed of chicken, a crossbreed of American barred Plymouth Rock birds and brown leghorns.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Legbar