Where does “flum” come from?
flum (Middle English) comes from Old French flum, from Latin Flūmen, from Latin fluō, from Proto-Indo-European bʰléh₁-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰel-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰōl-.
Ancestry of “flum”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old French | flum | river |
| 2 | Latin | Flūmen | — |
| 3 | Latin | fluō | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰléh₁- | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |
Words derived from “flum”