English
fiddleneck
From fiddle + neck.
Proto-Germanic *fiþulǭ
Proto-West Germanic *fiþulā
Old English *fiþele ‘fiddle or violin’
Middle English fithele ‘a string instrument played with a bow’
English fiddle
Proto-Germanic *hnakkô ‘nape’
Proto-West Germanic *hnakkō ‘nape’
Old English hnecca ‘back of the neck’
Middle English nekke ‘the neck’
English neck
Today it means
noun Any plant in the genus Amsinckia, with flowers in a coiled inflorescence that looks like the end of a fiddle.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / fiddleneck