English

fernbrake

From fern + brake.

A compound of fern + brake

Proto-Indo-European *p(t)erH-

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Proto-Germanic *farnaz

Proto-West Germanic *farn

Old English fearn

Middle English fern

English fern

Middle Low German brake ‘nose ring, curb, flax brake’

English brake

Today it means

noun A thicket of fern or bracken

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

Etymograph / fernbrake