The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*pléu-mon-
- Latin · borrowed frompulmōnārius“of the lungs”
- English todaypulmonary
Borrowed from Latin pulmōnārius (“of the lungs”), from pulmō (“lung”) + -ārius, from Proto-Indo-European *pléu-mon-. Cognate with Greek πλεμόνι (plemóni), French poumon, Lithuanian plaučiai, Polish płuco and Russian пла́вать (plávatʹ, “to swim”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.