Where does “flashes” come from?

flashes (French) comes from French flasher, from English Flash, from Middle English flasshen.

flashes (French): second-person singular present indicative of...

Definitions

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

Ancestry of “flashes”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchflasherto flash
2EnglishFlashA multimedia platform, most often used for adding animation and interactivity to webpages
3Middle Englishflasshen—
Every word from Middle English flasshen →
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