English

foxberry

From fox + berry.

A compound of fox + berry

Proto-Indo-European *púḱsos ‘the tailed one’

Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz ‘fox’

Proto-West Germanic *fuhs

Old English fox ‘fox’

Middle English fox

English fox

Proto-Germanic *bazją

Proto-West Germanic *baʀi

Old English berġe

Middle English berie ‘a berry’

English berry

Today it means

noun The plant cowberry or lingonberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea.

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

Etymograph / foxberry