{"id":4939,"date":"2026-07-14T15:16:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hk-florist.com\/?p=4939"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:17:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T07:17:33","slug":"the-origins-of-fleur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hk-florist.com\/zh\/the-origins-of-fleur\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origins of &#8220;Fleur&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u8299\u84c9<\/strong> is the French word for &#8220;flower,&#8221; and its history stretches all the way back through Latin to a very old Indo-European root.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The lineage<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*<em>Proto-Indo-European \u2192 b\u02b0leh\u2083-<\/em> The trail starts with the reconstructed root *b\u02b0leh\u2083-, meaning &#8220;to bloom&#8221; or &#8220;to flourish.&#8221; This same root eventually gives English words like <em>bloom<\/em>, <em>blossom<\/em>, and <em>flourish<\/em> \u2014 so <em>\u8299\u84c9<\/em> \u548c <em>flourish<\/em> are, in a sense, distant cousins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Latin \u2192 fl\u014ds, fl\u014dris<\/strong> From that root, Latin developed <em>fl\u014ds<\/em> (nominative) \/ <em>fl\u014dris<\/em> (genitive), meaning &#8220;flower.&#8221; This is also the source of many other flower-related words across Romance and English:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>flora<\/em> (plant life)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>\u82b1\u5349<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>flourish<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>deflower<\/em>, <em>effloresce<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Old French \u2192 flor \/ flur<\/strong> As Latin evolved into Old French, <em>fl\u014ds\/fl\u014dris<\/em> became <em>flor<\/em> or <em>flur<\/em>. 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