Etymology

frontwoman

F4R1O1N1T1W4O1M3A1N1

Today it means: The female lead singer in a band. Full definition →

English woman ← Middle English womman ← Old English wīfmann
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The story

  1. Latinfrontem
  2. Old Frenchfront
  3. Middle Englishfrount
  4. Englishfront
  5. Proto-Germanic*wībą
  6. Proto-West Germanic*wīb
  7. Old Englishwīf
  8. Proto-Indo-European*mon-
  9. Proto-Germanic*mann-
  10. Proto-West Germanic*mann
  11. Old Englishmann
  12. Old Englishwīfmann
  13. Middle Englishwomman
  14. Englishwoman
  15. English todayfrontwoman

From front + woman.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.