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fume

n.
US //ˈfjum// UK //fjˈuːm// fume Archaic
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Origin

From Middle English fume, from Old French fum (“smoke, steam, vapour”), from Latin fūmus (“vapour, smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European dʰuh₂mós (“smoke”), from dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”). Doublet of thymus and thymos. More at dun, dusk, dust.

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