Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/fleus

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 *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, ffleyse, fleece, fleese, fleesse, fleis, fleos, fleose, fles, flese, floes, flus, vluys
  - English: fleece
    - → Finnish: fliisi
    - → German: Fleece
  - Scots: fleis
  - Yola: flaase
Old Frisian: *fliōs, *fliūs
- Saterland Frisian: Flüüs
- West Frisian: flues
Old Saxon: *flios
- Middle Low German: vlüs
  - Low German: Flüs
Old Dutch: *flios, *flius
- Middle Dutch: vlies, vluus
  - Dutch: vlies
    - Afrikaans: vlies
    - → German: Vlies
  - Limburgish: vlees
Old High German: *flios, flius
- Middle High German: vlius
  - German: Fleuß, Flüß (rare, obsolete)

References

^ Guus Kroonen (2013) Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

[1] Guus Kroonen (2013) Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

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