The traditional and aparently obvious etymology of
Latin flu:men "river", is < fluere "to flow", like
synonymous fluvius.
But, I'm thinking about an alternative source: flumen
could be a shift from an older *frumen < *sreu-mn-,
akin to Greek rheuma, Thracian river Strymon and
Germanic straumaz. This shift was due to influence of
fluvius.
Joao SL
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