English

forehock

From fore- + hock.

Formed from fore- + hock

Proto-Indo-European *per- ‘before, formerly’

Proto-Germanic *fura- ‘before, in front of, for’

Proto-West Germanic *forē- ‘before, in front of, fore-, pre-’

English fore-

German

English hock

Today it means

noun The hock from the foreleg of a pig

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

Etymograph / forehock