Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/flaþō

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

Alternative forms

*flaþā[1][2], *flaþu[2]

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”).

Noun

*flaþō m[3]

thin fried batter cake, pancake

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*flaþō
Genitive	flaþini, flaþan
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*flaþō	*flaþan
Accusative	*flaþan	*flaþan
Genitive	flaþini, flaþan	*flaþanō
Dative	flaþini, flaþan	*flaþum
Instrumental	flaþini, flaþan	*flaþum

Related terms

*flat
*flatti

Descendants

Old English: *flaþa
- Middle English: flathe
  - English: flathe, flath
- ⇒ Old English: flæþecomb, fleþecomb
Old Saxon: *flatho
- Middle Low German: vlāde
  - >? German Low German: Flarr
  - → Norwegian: flade (dialectal)
Old Dutch: *flatho, *flatha
- Middle Dutch: vlāde f
  - Dutch: vla, vlade
    - Afrikaans: vla
  - Limburgish: vlaaj
    - → Dutch: vlaai (or inherited)
Old High German: flado m, flada f
- Middle High German: vlade
  - German: Flade, Fladen
  - Luxembourgish: Flued
→ Latin: fladō[4]
- Old French: flaon, flan
  - Middle French: flan
    - French: flan
  - → Middle English: flaun, flawn
    - Scots: flann, flam
  - English: flawn, flan
- → Catalan: flam, flaó
- → Spanish: flan
- Italian: fiadone
- Occitan: flauzon
- → English: flathon

References

Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Fladen”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 217: “*flaþōn”
Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*flaþō(n)”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 105
Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*flata-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 144-145: “*flaþan-”
Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 90

[1] Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Fladen”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 217: “*flaþōn”

[HGE-2] Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*flaþō(n)”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 105

[3] Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*flata-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 144-145: “*flaþan-”

[4] Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 90