Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/flauhaz

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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/flauhaz

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

Uncertain. From Pre-Germanic *plówkos or *plówkeh₂, apparently formed from the Proto-Indo-European root *plewk-, but perhaps a folk-etymological or tabooistic[1] replacement for an earlier, extinct reflex of *pusl-, *plúsis (“flea”) (from which e.g. Latin pūlex (“flea”) and Lithuanian blusa (“flea”) derive). The reformation may have developed under the influence of *fleuhaną (“to flee”).[2]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸlɑu̯.xɑz/

Noun

*flauhaz m

1. flea

Inflection

masculine a-stemDeclension of *flauhaz (masculine a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*flauhaz	*flauhōz, *flauhōs
vocative	*flauh	*flauhōz, *flauhōs
accusative	*flauhą	*flauhanz
genitive	*flauhas, *flauhis	*flauhǫ̂
dative	*flauhai	*flauhamaz
instrumental	*flauhō	*flauhamiz

Alternative reconstructions

• *flauhō[1]
• *flauhs[2]

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *flauh
  • Old English: flēah, flēa, flǣh, fleah, flēo
    • Middle English: fle, flee, flei, fleigh, fley
      • English: flea (dialectal fleck)
      • Scots: flech, flaich, fle, flae
      • Yola: fleen (plural)
  • Old Frisian: *flā, *flē
    • Saterland Frisian: Flee
    • West Frisian: flie
  • Old Saxon: *flōh, *flō
    • Middle Low German: vlô
      • Low German: Flo, Flö, Flau, Flua
  • Old Dutch: *flō
    • Middle Dutch: vlô
      • Dutch: vlo
      • Limburgish: vlouch
  • Old High German: flōh, flō
    • Middle High German: vlōch, vlō
      • Bavarian: Floach

        Cimbrian: vlòach, blòach

      • Alemannic German: Flo
      • German: Floh
      • Luxembourgish: Flou
      • Yiddish: פֿלוי‎ (floy)
• Old Norse: fló
  • Icelandic: fló
  • Norwegian: flo
• → Proto-Samic: *lāffēs
  • Lule Sami: láffes
• → Proto-Samic: *lāvkkēs
  • Northern Sami: lávkkis

References

1. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “flauhō-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 145
2. Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*flauxs”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 105–106