English

helmetshrike

From helmet + shrike.

A compound of helmet + shrike

Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-

Old French helmet

Middle English helmet ‘a helmet’

Proto-Germanic *skrīkijaną ‘to cry out’

Old English sċrīc ‘shrike, thrush’

Middle English *schrike

Today it means

noun Any of a group of crested birds of the genus Prionops.

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

Etymograph / helmetshrike