Etymology

flatwash

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Today it means: A style of painting in which shapes are completely filled with a solid color and have no outlines. Full definition →

English wash ← Middle English waschen ← Old English wascan
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  1. Proto-Germanic*flataz
  2. Old Norseflatr
  3. Middle Englishflat
  4. Englishflat
  5. Proto-Indo-European*wed-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*wodsḱéti
  7. Proto-Germanic*waskaną
  8. Proto-West Germanic*waskan
  9. Old Englishwascan
  10. Middle Englishwaschen
  11. Englishwash
  12. English todayflatwash

From flat + wash.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.