The story
- Latin · derived fromfulgur
- Old French · derived fromfoudre
- Middle English · inherited fromfouldre“lightning”
- English todayfoulder
From Middle English fouldre (“lightning”), from Old French foudre also fouldre (modern French foudre), from Latin fulgur. See fulgor.
Words from the same roots
Latinfulgur all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.