héafodpanne

héafodpanne
f (-an/-an) skull

Old to modern English dictionary. 2013.

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  • skull — [13] The Old English word for ‘skull’ was hēafodpanne, literally ‘head pan’. It has never been firmly established where its Middle English replacement skull came from, but is seems more than likely that it was borrowed from a Scandinavian… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • skull — [13] The Old English word for ‘skull’ was hēafodpanne, literally ‘head pan’. It has never been firmly established where its Middle English replacement skull came from, but is seems more than likely that it was borrowed from a Scandinavian… …   Word origins

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