Where does “fler” come from?
fler (Romanian) comes from French flair, from French flairer, 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.
fler (Romanian): flair
Definitions
- flair
Ancestry of “fler”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | flair | sense of smell; intuition, sixth sense |
| 2 | French | flairer | to smell, sniff; to scent; to sense |
| 3 | Old French | flairier | to smell |
| 4 | Latin | flāgrō | to burn, blaze |
| 5 | Latin | frāgrō | to emit a smell of, to smell of, to be redolent of, to reek of |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | frāgrāō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰreh₂gro- | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰreh₂g- | to smell |