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flowEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *plew- Proto-Indo-European *plōw-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pleh₃(w)-der.? Proto-Germanic *flōaną Proto-West Germanic *flōan Old English flōwan Middle English flowen Middle English flowe English flow From Middle English flowe, from the verb (see below). The psychology sense “state of focus” was coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1975.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *plew- Proto-Indo-European *plōw-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pleh₃(w)-der.? Proto-Germanic *flōaną Proto-West Germanic *flōan Old English flōwan Middle English flowen English flow From Middle English flowen, from Old English flōwan (“to flow”), from Proto-West Germanic *flōan, from Proto-Germanic *flōaną (“to flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *plōw-, lengthened o-grade form of *plew- (“to fly, flow, run”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian flouje (“to flow”), West Frisian floeie (“to flow”), Dutch vloeien (“to flow”), Norwegian flo (“to flow”). Compare also English float. Not cognate with Latin fluō despite similarity.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗flowEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Uncertain. Perhaps from Old Norse flói (“a large bay, firth”), see floe. Compare Scots flow (“peat-bog, marsh”), Icelandic flói (“marshy ground”).
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Chambers (1908)
1908- FlowEnglish · e-38538-1861
Flow, flō, v.i. to run, as water: to rise, as the tide: to move in a stream, as air: to glide smoothly: to circulate, as the blood: to abound: to hang loose and waving: (B.) to melt.—v.t. to cover with water.—n. a stream
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Flow, flow, n. a morass: (Scot.) a flat, moist tract of land. [Ice. floi, a marsh—flóa, to flood.]
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