English
Filthadelphia
Blend of filth + Philadelphia.
A blend of filth + Philadelphia
Proto-Indo-European *puH- ‘to be rotten’
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Proto-West Germanic *fūl ‘foul, dirty’
Proto-West Germanic *fūliþu ‘foulness, rottenness, filth’
Old English fȳlþu
Middle English filth
English filth
Today it means
name Philadelphia, depicting the city as a filthy place.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Filthadelphia