Etymograph

English

pulver

Pulver comes from Latin pulvis ‘dust, powder, ashes’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpulvisas pulver-‘dust, powder, ashes’
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500pulver
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1599pulver

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpulvisas pulver-‘dust, powder, ashes’
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500pulver
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1599pulver

Earliest quotation: 1599, Oswaldus Gabelhouer [i.e., Oswald Gaebelkhover]: “Take fine Suger ℔ ß. Spec. Diarhod. Abbatis ʒ…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *pel- ‘flour, dust’

film, felt, simple, simply, push, complain, fold, filter, repeal, flaw, pulse, pollen, palate, expel, repel, palpable, palladium, propel, palatable, pall, pelt, wallow, compulsive, peloton, polemic, tuple, pollinate, palatal, muffle, apoplexy, peplum, palp, pillion, interpolate, 63 more

through Latin pulvis ‘dust, powder, ashes’

powder, pillow, 10 more

Today it means

noun Powder.

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

Etymograph / Latin pulvis / pulver

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