English
firewheel
From fire + wheel.
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 *kʷékʷlos ‘wheel’
Proto-Germanic *hwehwlą ‘wheel’
Proto-Germanic *hweulō ‘wheels (plural of *hwehwlą)’
Old English hwēol ‘wheel’
Middle English whel ‘wheel’
English wheel
Today it means
noun Gaillardia pulchella, a flowering plant of southern US, from Arizona to Florida, and northern Mexico.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / firewheel