English
flythrough
From fly + through.
Proto-Indo-European *plew- ‘to fly, flow, run’
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Proto-Germanic *fleugǭ ‘flying insect, fly’
Proto-West Germanic *fleugā ‘fly’
Old English flēge ‘a fly’
Middle English fflye
English fly
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂- ‘to cross over, pass through’
Proto-Germanic *þurhw ‘through’
Old English þurh ‘through’
Middle English thurgh
English through
Today it means
noun A visual sequence in a film etc. in which the camera appears to pass over a landscape at high speed.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / flythrough