English

hornpike

From horn + pike.

A compound of horn + pike

Middle English horn

English horn

Proto-Germanic *pīkaz ‘sharp point, pike, pickaxe, peak’

Proto-West Germanic *pīk ‘sharp point, pike’

Old French pic ‘sharp point, spike’

Old English pīc ‘pointed object, pick axe’

Middle English pyke

English pike

Today it means

noun The garfish.

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

Etymograph / hornpike