English

teebox

From tee + box.

A compound of tee + box

Latin tē ‘the name of the Latin script letter T/t’

Old English te ‘to’

English tee

Late Latin buxis ‘box’

Proto-West Germanic *buhsā ‘box’

Old English box ‘box, case’

Middle English box ‘container’

English box

Today it means

noun The area where play begins for a hole of golf.

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