Where does “flower” come from?
Flower comes from English flow, Chinese 兒, Latin florem, Latin -are, Latin -arius, and Proto-Indo-European bʰel-.
flower (English): A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with...
Definitions
- A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with...
Ancestry of “flower”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | flour | A flower; A depiction or likeness of a flower;... |
| 2 | Anglo-Norman | flur | Alternative form of flor |
| 3 | Old French | flor | flower |
| 4 | Latin | flōs | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | flōs | flower, blossom |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃-s | flower, blossom |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |
Words derived from “flower”