Where does “flame” come from?

flame (French) comes from Middle French flame, from Latin flamma, from Latin flāgrāre, from Latin frāgrō, from Proto-Italic frāgrāō, from Proto-Indo-European bʰreh₂gro-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰreh₂g- — to smell.

flame (French): first-person singular present indicative of...

Definitions

  1. first-person singular present indicative of...

Ancestry of “flame”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchflame—
2Latinflammaflame, fire
3Latinflāgrāre—
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 “flame”

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