Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/flaiski

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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/flaiski

This Proto-West 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-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *flaiski.

Noun

*flaiski n[1]

1. meat, flesh

Inflection

i-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*flaiski
Genitive	*flaiskī
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*flaiski	*flaiskī
Accusative	*flaiski	*flaiskī
Genitive	*flaiskī	*flaiskijō
Dative	*flaiskī	*flaiskim, *flaiskijum
Instrumental	*flaiskī	*flaiskim, *flaiskijum

Derived terms

• *flaiskijan

Descendants

• 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)

References

1. Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 126: “*flaiski”