English

lambchop

From lamb + chop.

A compound of lamb + chop

Proto-Germanic *lambaz

Proto-West Germanic *lamb

Old English lamb

Middle English lamb ‘a lamb, its meat, or its skin’

English lamb

Middle English choppen ‘to chop’

English chop

Today it means

noun A chop or rib of lamb.

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

Etymograph / lambchop