fuel

The story

1. Latin · derived fromfocus“hearth”
2. Late Latin · derived fromfocus“fire”
3. Old French · derived fromfouaille
4. Middle English · inherited fromfuayle
5. English todayfuel

From Middle English fuayle, from Old French fouaille, feuaille (“firewood, kindling”), from feu (“fire”), from Late Latin focus (“fire”), from Latin focus (“hearth”), whence English focus. Cognate with Spanish fuego (“fire”), and Portuguese fogo (“fire”).

Words from the same roots