English

headforemost

From head + foremost.

A compound of head + foremost

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

Proto-Indo-European *pr-

Proto-Germanic *frumistaz ‘foremost, first’

Old English formest ‘earliest, first, most prominent’

Today it means

adv headfirst

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

Etymograph / headforemost