Where does “flairer” come from?
flairer (French) comes 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.
flairer (French): to smell, sniff; to scent; to sense
Definitions
- to smell, sniff; to scent; to sense
Ancestry of “flairer”, step by step
flairer traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Old French flairier
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | flairier | to smell |
| 2 | Latin | flāgrō | to burn, blaze |
| 3 | Latin | frāgrō | to emit a smell of, to smell of, to be redolent of, to reek of |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | frāgrāō | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰreh₂gro- | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰreh₂g- | to smell |
via Latin fragrare
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | fragrare | present active infinitive of frāgrō; to smell... |
via Latin flāgrāre
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | flāgrāre | — |