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Where does “flid” come from?

flid (English) comes from English thalidomide, from English phthalic, from English naphthalic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen — in.

flid (English): A stupid or physically uncoordinated person; a...

Definitions

  1. A stupid or physically uncoordinated person; a...

Ancestry of “flid”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishthalidomideA drug sold during the late 1950s and early 1960s...
2Englishphthalicof, relating to, or derived from naphthalene or...
3EnglishnaphthalicOf, pertaining to, yielding, or derived from...
4English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
5EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
6Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
7Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
8Spanishimagenimage
9Italianimmagineimage; imago
10Latinimāginem—
11Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
12Latinīn-—
13Latinîn—
14Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
15Proto-Italicenin
16Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →