English
firetrap
From fire + trap.
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 *drebʰ- ‘to step, trip, trample’
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Proto-West Germanic *trappjan ‘to step’
Proto-West Germanic *trappjā ‘trap, snare’
Old English træppe ‘trap, snare’
Middle English trappe
English trap
Today it means
noun A building that is dangerously flammable and/or has limited emergency exits in which people would be trapped in the event of a fire.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / firetrap