Etymograph

English

frillneck

From frill + neck.

A compound of frill + neck

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 The frilled lizard.

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

Etymograph / frillneck