English

firethroat

From fire + throat.

A compound of fire + throat

Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥

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Proto-Germanic *fuïr

Proto-West Germanic *fuir

Old English fȳr ‘fire’

Middle English fyr

English fire

Proto-Indo-European *trud- ‘to swell, become stiff’

Proto-Germanic *þrutō

Proto-West Germanic *þrotu

Old English þrote

Middle English throte

Today it means

noun A bird of the species Calliope pectarden, native to western and central China.

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

Etymograph / firethroat