Where does “flair” come from?

flair (French) comes from French flairer, from Old French flairier, from Latin flāgrō, from Latin frāgrō, from Proto-Italic frāgrāō, from Proto-Indo-European bʰreh₂gro-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰreh₂g- — to smell.

flair (French): sense of smell; intuition, sixth sense

Definitions

  1. sense of smell; intuition, sixth sense

Ancestry of “flair”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchflairerto smell, sniff; to scent; to sense
2Old Frenchflairierto smell
3Latinflāgrōto burn, blaze
4Latinfrāgrōto emit a smell of, to smell of, to be redolent of, to reek of
5Proto-Italicfrāgrāō—
6Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰreh₂gro-—
7Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰreh₂g-to smell

Words derived from “flair”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰreh₂g- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰreh₂gro- →Every word from Proto-Italic frāgrāō →