English

headstripe

From head + stripe.

A compound of head + stripe

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 stripe

Today it means

noun A stripe of colored feathers on the head of a bird.

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

Etymograph / headstripe