Etymograph

English

hydrofluoroether

From hydro- + fluoro- + ether.

Formed from hydro- + fluoro- + ether

Proto-Indo-European *wed- ‘water’

Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ ‘water’

Proto-Hellenic *údōr ‘water’

Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ ‘water’

English hydro-

Latin fluō ‘to flow, stream, pour’

Latin fluor ‘flow’

English fluoro-

Anglo-Norman ether

Middle English ēther ‘the caelum aetherum of ancient cosmology in…’

English ether

Today it means

noun Any of a class of ethers (many of them polymeric) having a mixture of alkyl and fluorinated alkyl substituents

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

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