Where does “four” come from?

four (French) comes from Old French forn, from Latin furnus, from Proto-Italic fornos, from Proto-Indo-European gʷʰr̥-nós, from Indo-European *gʷʰer-.

four (French): oven; stove; flop

Definitions

  1. oven; stove; flop

Ancestry of “four”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchfornoven
2Latinfurnusoven; bakery
3Proto-Italicfornos—
4Proto-Indo-Europeangʷʰr̥-nós—
5Indo-European*gʷʰer-—

Words derived from “four”

Every word from Indo-European *gʷʰer- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European gʷʰr̥-nós →Every word from Proto-Italic fornos →