Etymograph

English

textboard

From text + board.

A compound of text + board

Proto-Italic *teksō

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Latin textus ‘style or texture of a work’

Medieval Latin textus ‘text’

Old French texte

Middle English text

English text

Proto-Germanic *burdą ‘board’

Proto-West Germanic *bord ‘board’

Old English bord ‘board’

Middle English boord

English board

Today it means

noun A simple Internet message board that allows anonymous posting without registering an account.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “textboard”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / textboard