cattlehead

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. head of cattle; a neat, a beef, a single bovine

Word forms

cattlehead cattleheads

Etymology

From cattle + head. Interestingly, both are doublets from Proto-Indo-European *kauput- (“head”), through Latin caput (“head”) and from Old English hēafd-, hēafod (“head; top; source; chief”), itself from Proto-Germanic *haubudą (“head”), respectively.

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