Etymograph

English

superkick

From super- + kick.

Formed from super- + kick

Proto-Germanic *kaikaz ‘bent backwards’

Old Norse kikna ‘to sink at the knees’

Middle English kyken ‘to strike out with the foot’

English kick

Today it means

noun An ultrarelativistic interaction between two spinning black holes.

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

Etymograph / superkick