English

foreshoulder

fore- + shoulder

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-

Proto-West Germanic *skuldru

Old English sċuldra

Middle English schuldre ‘the shoulder’

Today it means

noun The front part of the shoulder.

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

Etymograph / foreshoulder