Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAny smell, whether fragrant or offensive. · A strong, pervasive quality. · Esteem. · Something which produces a scent; incense, a perfume.
From Middle English odour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman odour, from Old French odor, from Latin odor. Cognates * Swedish odör (“bad smell”)
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- Root classification mention*h₃ed- (smell)ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionodourenm
- Derivation mentionodorfro
- Derivation mentionodorla
- Cognate mentionodörsv · bad smell
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