Where does “fluid” come from?
fluid (Romanian) comes from French fluide, from Latin fluidus, from Latin fluō, from Proto-Indo-European bʰléh₁-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰel-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰōl-.
Ancestry of “fluid”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | fluide | fluid |
| 2 | Latin | fluidus | liquid, fluid, flowing; soft, feeble, moist |
| 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- | — |