Comparative evidence

1.bʰleh₁

• Lat. flō flāre ‘blow’, ‘breathe’, ‘play on (a pipe)’, ‘to sound’, ’subject (metals) to a current of air’, melt down (metals)’  (OLD: 713)

• Lat. fleō  flēre ‘cry’, ‘weep’, ‘lament’ (OLD: 712)

References

OLD = Glare, P. G. W. 1968. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.