English

firecrown

From fire + crown.

A compound of fire + crown

Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥

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Proto-Germanic *fuïr

Proto-West Germanic *fuir

Old English fȳr ‘fire’

Middle English fyr

English fire

Ancient Greek κορώνη ‘crow; anything curved; a crown’

Latin corōna ‘crown, wreath’

Anglo-Norman corone

Middle English coroune ‘a crown’

English crown

Today it means

noun Any hummingbird of the genus Sephanoides.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / firecrown