English
fluvisol
Fluvisol comes from Latin fluvius ‘river’, from fluō ‘flow’, and perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- ‘to swell, blow’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰleh₁-1‘to swell, blow’uncertain
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰlewH-1‘to overflow’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰluH-yé-ti1uncertain
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluō2‘flow’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluvius3‘river’root of fluō
- Englishtodayfluvisol3
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, Latin fluo
- 2 Wiktionary, Latin fluvius
- 3 Wiktionary, English fluvisol
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰleh₁-Wiktionary, Latin fluo‘to swell, blow’uncertain
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰlewH-Wiktionary, Latin fluo‘to overflow’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰluH-yé-tiWiktionary, Latin fluouncertain
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluōWiktionary, Latin fluvius‘flow’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEfluviusWiktionary, English fluvisol‘river’root of fluō
- EnglishtodayfluvisolWiktionary, English fluvisol
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- ‘to swell, blow’
blow, blast, inflation, flavor, bladder, bliss, feeble, inflate, blithely, flatulence, blare, blather, conflate, bleat, 44 more
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti
through Latin fluō ‘flow’
influence, fluid, influx, fluent, flux, confluence, fluctuate, fluency, fluctuation, affluence, flume, fluorine, fluorite, fluor, 26 more
Today it means
noun A genetically young kind of soil found in alluvial deposits.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “fluvisol”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin fluo, Latin fluvius. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- / fluvisol