Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/flaiski

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɸlɑi̯.ski/

Noun

*flaiski n

meat, flesh

Inflection

neuter i-stemDeclension of *flaiski (neuter i-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*flaiski	*flaiskī
vocative	*flaiski	*flaiskī
accusative	*flaiski	*flaiskī
genitive	*flaiskīz	*flaiskijǫ̂
dative	*flaiskī	*flaiskimaz
instrumental	*flaiskī	*flaiskimiz

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *flaiski
- Old English: flǣsċ
  - Middle English: flesh
    - English: flesh
    - Scots: flesch
    - Yola: vleash, vlesh
- Old Frisian: flāsk, flēsk
  - North Frisian:
    Mooring: flååsch
  - Saterland Frisian: Flaask
  - West Frisian: fleis
- Old Saxon: flēsk
  - Middle Low German: vlêsk, vlêsch, vlês
    - German Low German: (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
      Low Prussian: Sauerländisch (Olpe, Wenden): Fleisch
      Märkisch (Altmärkisch), Westphalian (Bentheimisch): Fleesch
      Märkisch (Altmärkisch), Westphalian (Westmünsterländisch): Fleesk
      Westphalian:
      Bentheimisch (Grafschaf), Sauerländisch (Sündern, Balve, Eslohe, Attendorn, Drolshagen, Kirchhundem): Fläis
      Bentheimisch (Grafschaf), Westmünsterländisch: Flees
      East Westphalian (Ravensberg), Sauerländisch: Fläisk
      East Westphalian: Floisk (Lippe)
      Sauerländisch: Flääsk (Niedersfeld), Flais (Felbecke, Elspe)
    - Plautdietsch: Fleesch
- Old Dutch: flēsc
  - Middle Dutch: vlêesch
    - Dutch: vlees
      - Afrikaans: vleis
      - Negerhollands: vleesch, fleis, vleis
      - → West Frisian: fleis
    - Limburgish: vleisj
- Old High German: fleisk
  - Middle High German: fleisch, fleis, vleisch
    - Alemannic German:
      Swabian: Floisch
    - Bavarian:
      Cimbrian: vlòas, blòas, vlaisch
    - Central Franconian: Fleesch, Fleisch, Flääsch
      Hunsrik: Fleisch
      Luxembourgish: Fleesch
    - German: Fleisch
    - Rhine Franconian: Flaasch, Flaisch, Fleesch
      Pennsylvania German: Fleesch
    - Vilamovian: fłaś
    - Yiddish: פֿלייש‎ (fleysh)
Old Norse: flesk, fleski
- Icelandic: flesk
- Faroese: flesk
- Norwegian: flesk
- Old Swedish: flæsk
  - Swedish: fläsk
  - → Finnish: läski
- Old Danish: flæsk
  - Danish: flæsk