Etymograph

English

trackback

From track + back.

A compound of track + back

Old French trac ‘track of horses’

Middle English trak

English track

Proto-Germanic *baką ‘back’

Proto-West Germanic *bak

Old English bæc

Middle English bak ‘the back’

English back

Today it means

noun A method to keep track of links to content, especially blog entries.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “trackback”. 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.

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