English
floodlike
From flood + -like.
Formed from flood + -like
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₃(w)- ‘to swim, flow’
Proto-Germanic *flōduz ‘river’
Proto-West Germanic *flōdu ‘river’
Old English flōd ‘flowing of the tide’
Middle English flod ‘a river; a waterbody that moves in one direction’
English flood
Today it means
adj Resembling or characteristic of a flood.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / floodlike