English

frunk

Blend of front + trunk.

Latin frōns ‘forehead’

Old French front ‘forehead’

Middle English front

English front

Latin truncus ‘a stock, lopped tree trunk’

Old French tronc ‘alms box, tree trunk, headless body’

Middle English tronke ‘a tree trunk’

English trunk

Today it means

noun A trunk (boot, storage compartment) located at the front rather than the rear of a car.

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