English

letterhack

From letter + hack.

A compound of letter + hack

Latin littera ‘letter of the alphabet; (plural) epistle’

Old French letre

Middle English letter

Proto-Indo-European *keg-

Proto-Germanic *hakkōną ‘to chop’

Proto-West Germanic *hakkōn ‘to hack, chop’

Old English *haccian ‘to hack’

Middle English hacken

English hack

Today it means

noun A fan who is a prolific writer of letters to periodicals.

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

Etymograph / letterhack