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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/fleuþr
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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
Unknown.[1]
Noun
*fleuþr m
- elder tree
- Synonym: *holantr
Inflection
| Masculine a-stem | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | ||
| Nominative | *fleuþr | |
| Genitive | *fleuþras | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | *fleuþr | *fleuþrō, *fleuþrōs |
| Accusative | *fleuþr | *fleuþrā |
| Genitive | *fleuþras | *fleuþrō |
| Dative | *fleuþrē | *fleuþrum |
| Instrumental | *fleuþru | *fleuþrum |
Descendants
- Old Frisian: *fliāther
- West Frisian: flear
- >? Old Saxon: *fliothar
- Middle Low German: vlêder, vleder, flêder, vlider (likely from Dutch)
- German Low German:
- Low Prussian: Flieder
- Westphalian:
- Bentheimisch: Fleär
- Westmünsterländisch Fleer
- Plautdietsch: Flêder
- → German: Flieder
- → Swedish: fläder
- German Low German:
- Middle Low German: vlêder, vleder, flêder, vlider (likely from Dutch)
- Old Dutch: fliethar
- Middle Dutch: vlieder, vlier
- Dutch: vlier
- Middle Dutch: vlieder, vlier
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*fleuþra-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 147