English
smokefall
From smoke + fall.
Proto-Indo-European *smug- ‘to smoke’
Proto-Germanic *smukô ‘smoke’
Old English smoca
Middle English smoke
English smoke
Proto-Indo-European *h₃elh₁- ‘to collapse’
Proto-Germanic *fallaną ‘to fall’
Proto-West Germanic *fallan ‘to fall’
Old English feallan ‘to fall’
Middle English fallen ‘to fall’
English fall
Today it means
noun The close of the day before nightfall, when fog comes.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “smokefall”. 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 / smokefall