Etymograph

English

floodproof

From flood + -proof.

Formed from flood + -proof

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 Resistant to flooding.

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

Etymograph / floodproof