Etymology of floor

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noun

The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room. · The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth). · The ground. · A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.

verb

To cover or furnish with a floor. · To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down. · To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the base of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen. · To push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

Inherited from Middle English floor, floour, flor, flore, flour, flur, vlor, from Old English flōr (“floor, pavement; deck; gangplank”), from Proto-West Germanic *flōr, from Proto-Germanic *flōraz (“ground; floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂ros (“floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). Cognates Cognate with Scots flair, fluir (“floor”), Saterland Frisian Floor (“floor”), Dutch vloer (“floor”), German Flur (“corridor, hall, hallway, stairwell”), Limburgish Vlǫǫr (“floor”), Low German Floor (“hallway or entrance to a house”), Luxembourgish Flouer (“countryside, farmland”); also Breton and Cornish leur (“floor, ground, surface”), Irish lár (“floor, ground”), Scottish Gaelic làr (“earth, floor, ground”), Manx laare (“bottom, deck, floor; level, storey”), Welsh llawr (“floor, ground”), Latin plānus (“even, flat, level”), Greek απαλάμη (apalámi), παλάμη (palámi, “hand, palm”), Albanian pëllëmbë (“palm”), Latgalian pluons (“thin”), Latvian plāns (“thin”), Lithuanian plonas (“fine, slender, thin”), Belarusian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian по́ле (póle, “field”), Bulgarian поле́ (polé, “field”), Czech, Polish, and Slovak pole (“field”), Serbo-Croatian по̏ље, pȍlje (“field”), Slovene polje (“field”), Hittite 𒁄𒄭𒅖 (palḫis, “broad, wide”). Related to flat.

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Root classification mention*pleh₂-ine-pro
Inherited-form mentionfloorenm
Inherited-form mentionflōrang · floor, pavement; deck; gangplank
Inherited-form mention*flōrgmw-pro
Inherited-form mention*flōrazgem-pro · ground; floor
Inherited-form mention*pleh₂rosine-pro · floor
Derivation mention*pleh₂-ine-pro · flat
Cognate mentionflairsco
Cognate mentionFloorstq · floor
Cognate mentionvloernl · floor
Cognate mentionFlurde · corridor, hall, hallway, stairwell
Cognate mentionVlǫǫrli · floor
Cognate mentionFloornds · hallway or entrance to a house
Cognate mentionFlouerlb · countryside, farmland
Cognate mentionlárga · floor, ground
Cognate mentionlàrgd · earth, floor, ground
Cognate mentionlaaregv · bottom, deck, floor; level, storey
Cognate mentionllawrcy · floor, ground
Cognate mentionplānusla · even, flat, level
Cognate mentionαπαλάμηel
Cognate mentionpëllëmbësq · palm
Cognate mentionpluonsltg · thin
Cognate mentionplānslv · thin
Cognate mentionplonaslt · fine, slender, thin
Cognate mentionполе́bg · field
Cognate mentionпо̏љеsh
Cognate mentionpoljesl · field
Cognate mention𒁄𒄭𒅖hit · broad, wide

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