English

fanback

From fan + back.

A compound of fan + back

Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- ‘to blow’

Latin vannus ‘fan for winnowing grain’

Old English fann ‘a winnowing fan’

Middle English fan

English fan

Proto-Germanic *baką ‘back’

Proto-West Germanic *bak

Old English bæc

Middle English bak ‘the back’

English back

Today it means

noun A kind of chair whose back has a number of vertical elements that spread out like a fan.

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