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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/flahs
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *flahsą.
Noun
*flahs n[1]
- flax
Inflection
Neuter a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *flahs | |
Genitive | *flahsas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *flahs | *flahsu |
Accusative | *flahs | *flahsu |
Genitive | *flahsas | *flahsō |
Dative | *flahsē | *flahsum |
Instrumental | *flahsu | *flahsum |
Descendants
- Old English: fleax
- Middle English: flax
- Scots: flax, flask
- English: flax
- Middle English: flax
- Old Frisian: flax
- Saterland Frisian: Floaks
- West Frisian: flaaks
- Old Saxon: flahs
- Middle Low German: flas, vlas
- German Low German: Flass
- Low German: Flass
- Plautdietsch: Flauss
- Middle Low German: flas, vlas
- Old Dutch: flahs, flas
- Middle Dutch: vlas
- Dutch: vlas
- Middle Dutch: vlas
- Old High German: flahs
- Middle High German: vlahs
- German: Flachs
- Luxembourgish: Fluess
- Vilamovian: fłaoks
- Middle High German: vlahs
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 176: “PWGmc *flahs”