English

hingeback

From hinge + back.

A compound of hinge + back

Middle English henge

English hinge

Proto-Germanic *baką ‘back’

Proto-West Germanic *bak

Old English bæc

Middle English bak ‘the back’

English back

Today it means

noun Any turtle of the genus Kinixys.

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Etymograph / hingeback

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