English

headtube

From head + tube.

A compound of head + tube

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

Latin tubus ‘tube, pipe’

Middle French tube ‘conduit; pipe’

English tube

Today it means

noun The front tube of the frame of a bicycle.

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

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