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DEFINITION:
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To rot, decay. Probably contracted from *pu -
(becoming *puw- before
vowels).
Derivatives include foul, fuzzy,
potpourri, and pus.
1. Suffixed form *p -lo-.
a. foul, from Old English fl,
unclean, rotten; b. fulmar, from Old Norse fll,
foul; c. filth, from Old English f lth,
foulness, from Germanic abstract noun *flith ; d.
file3, foil1; defile1, from Old
English flan, to sully, from Germanic denominative *fljan,
to soil, dirty. a–d all
from Germanic *flaz, rotten, filthy. 2. Extended form *pug-.
fog2, from Middle
English fog, fogge, aftermath grass, from a
Scandinavian source probably akin to Icelandic fki,
rotten sea grass, and Norwegian fogg,
rank grass, from Germanic *fuk-.
3. Extended variant form *pous-. fuzzy, from Low German fussig, spongy, from Germanic *fausa-. 4. Suffixed form *pu-tri-.
putrescent, putrid; olla podrida, potpourri, putrefy, from Latin puter (stem putri-), rotten. 5.
Suffixed form *puw-os-. a. purulent, pus; suppurate, from Latin ps, pus;
b. pyo-, from Greek puon, puos,
pus. 6. empyema, from Greek compound empuein, to suppurate (en-, in; see en). (Pokorny 2. p - 848.)
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