Etymograph

English

fumelike

From fume + -like.

Formed from fume + -like

Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- ‘to smoke, raise dust’

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Proto-Italic *fūmos

Latin fūmus ‘vapour, smoke’

Old French fum ‘smoke, steam, vapour’

Middle English fume ‘Visible gaseous emanations’

English fume

Today it means

adj Resembling or characteristic of a fume.

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

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