English

hearthflame

From hearth + flame.

A compound of hearth + flame

Proto-West Germanic *herþ ‘hearth, fireplace’

Old English heorþ

Middle English herth ‘a hearth’

Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- ‘to shimmer, gleam, shine’

Proto-Italic *flagmā

Latin flamma

Anglo-Norman flaumbe

Middle English flawme ‘a flame’

English flame

Today it means

noun The fire that burns in a hearth.

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

Etymograph / hearthflame