flor

Middle English

/floːr/

noun
Definitions
  • A floor; the bottom surface of a room or building.
  • A level or story of a building; one of a building's floors.
  • A flat area or platform often for preparing stuff on
  • The surface of the earth, especially when relatively flat; a plain.
  • (rare) The bottom substructure or support of a building.
  • (rare) The bottom of one's eyelid or eyelash.

Etymology

Inherited from Old English flōr (ground, floor, pavement, bottom) inherited from Proto-Germanic *flōrō inherited from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂ros (floor, flat).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*pleh₂ros

Gloss

floor, flat

Concept
Semantic Field

The house

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Emoji
🤣

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms