Etymology

firesmoke

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Today it means: Smoke from a fire. Full definition →

English smoke ← Middle English smoke ← Old English smoca
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*péh₂wr̥
  2. Proto-Germanic*fōr
  3. Proto-West Germanic*fuir
  4. Old Englishfȳr
  5. Middle Englishfyr
  6. Englishfire
  7. Old Englishsmoca
  8. Middle Englishsmoke
  9. Englishsmoke
  10. English todayfiresmoke

From fire + smoke.

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