Etymology

bushfire

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Today it means: An uncontrolled fire in a wooded or grassy area; a wildfire. Full definition →

English fire ← Middle English fyr ← Old English fȳr
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The story

  1. Englishbush
  2. Proto-Indo-European*péh₂wr̥
  3. Proto-Germanic*fōr
  4. Proto-West Germanic*fuir
  5. Old Englishfȳr
  6. Middle Englishfyr
  7. Englishfire
  8. English todaybushfire

From bush + fire.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.