English

trashfire

From trash + fire.

A compound of trash + fire

Middle English trasch ‘refuse, rubbish’

English trash

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

noun Fire resulting from trash burning.

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

Etymograph / trashfire