English

headfit

From head + fit.

A compound of head + fit

Proto-Indo-European *kap- ‘head’

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Proto-Germanic *haubudą ‘head’

Proto-West Germanic *haubud

Old English hēafod ‘head’

Middle English heed ‘head’

English head

Middle English fit ‘an adversary of equal power’

English fit

Today it means

noun A sudden fit of temper; a tantrum.

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