Etymology

flume

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Today it means: A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through. Full definition →

Middle English flum ← Old French flum ← Latin flūmen
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰel-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰlewH-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*bʰluH-yé-ti?
  4. Latinfluō
  5. Latinflūmen
  6. Old Frenchflum
  7. Middle Englishflum
  8. English todayflume

From Middle English flum, from Old French flum, flun, from Latin flumen, from fluere (“to flow”).

Words from the same roots

Latinflumen all →

RijekaFiumeflumenfluminous

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.