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- Proto-Indo-European*bʰel-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰleh₁-
- Proto-Italic*flāō
- Latinflō
- Latinflātor
- Vulgar Latin*flātor
- Old Frenchflaor
- Middle Englishsavourinflu.
- Middle Englishflavour
- Englishflavor
- Proto-Indo-European*dewh₂-
- Proto-Hellenic*dunamai
- Ancient Greekδῠ́νᾰμαι (dŭ́nămai)
- Ancient Greekδύναμις (dúnamis)
- Ancient Greekδυναμικός (dunamikós)
- Frenchdynamique
- Englishdynamic
- Englishdynamics
- English todayflavordynamics
From flavor + dynamics, by analogy with electrodynamics and chromodynamics.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.