Etymology

floodlight

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Today it means: A projector of a bright beam of light for use in theatres and studios; a flood Full definition →

English light ← Middle English light ← Old English lēoht
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The story

  1. Englishflood
  2. Proto-Germanic*leuhtą
  3. Proto-West Germanic*leuht
  4. Old Englishlēoht
  5. Middle Englishlight
  6. Englishlight
  7. English todayfloodlight

From flood + light.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.