English
hellstrip
From hell + strip.
Proto-Germanic *haljō ‘hell’
Proto-West Germanic *hallju ‘the netherworld’
Old English hel
Middle English hel
English hell
The story
Coined by American horticulturalist and author Lauren Springer Ogden in the 1990s.
Today it means
noun A strip of land between a sidewalk and a street.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / hellstrip