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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/fleus
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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *fleusaz, from Proto-Indo-European *plews- (“to pull out, pluck”).[1]
Noun
*fleus n
- fleece
Inflection
| z-stem | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | ||
| Nominative | *fleus | |
| Genitive | *fliusiʀi | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | *fleus | *fliusiʀu |
| Accusative | *fleus | *fliusiʀu |
| Genitive | *fliusiʀi | *fliusiʀō |
| Dative | *fliusiʀi | *fliusiʀum |
| Instrumental | *fliusiʀi | *fliusiʀum |
Descendants
- Old English: flēos, flīes, flȳs, flēs
- Middle English: flees, fleose, flese, flus, fleos, fleesse, vluy
- English: fleece
- → Finnish: fliisi
- → German: Fleece
- Scots: fleis
- Yola: flaase
- English: fleece
- Middle English: flees, fleose, flese, flus, fleos, fleesse, vluy
- Old Frisian: *fliōs, *fliūs
- Saterland Frisian: Flüüs
- West Frisian: flues
- Old Saxon: *flios
- Middle Low German: vlüs
- Low German: Flüs
- Middle Low German: vlüs
- Old Dutch: *flios, *flius
- Middle Dutch: vlies, vluus
- Dutch: vlies
- → German: Vlies
- Limburgish: vlees
- Dutch: vlies
- Middle Dutch: vlies, vluus
- Old High German: *flios, flius
- Middle High German: vlius
- German: Fleuß, Flüß (rare, obsolete)
- Middle High German: vlius
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN