English

test-fire

From test + fire.

A compound of test + fire

Latin testum ‘earthen vessel, earthen pot’

Old French test ‘an earthen vessel’

Middle English test

English test

Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥

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Proto-Germanic *fuïr

Proto-West Germanic *fuir

Old English fȳr ‘fire’

Middle English fyr

English fire

Today it means

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Etymograph / test-fire