Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/flaskǭ

This Proto-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-Germanic edit

Etymology edit

Possibly from earlier *flahtskō, from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to weave”).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈɸlɑs.kɔ̃ː/

Noun edit

*flaskǭ f

a plaiting-covered vessel
bottle, flask

Inflection edit

ōn-stemDeclension of *flaskǭ (ōn-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*flaskǭ	*flaskōniz
vocative	*flaskǭ	*flaskōniz
accusative	*flaskōnų	*flaskōnunz
genitive	*flaskōniz	*flaskōnǫ̂
dative	*flaskōni	*flaskōmaz
instrumental	*flaskōnē	*flaskōmiz

Descendants edit

Proto-West Germanic: *flaskā, *flahskā
- Old English: flasce, flaxe
  - Middle English: flask, flaske (partly)
    - English: flask
    - Scots: flask, flas
- Old Frisian: *fleske, *flesche
  - West Frisian: flesse
- Old Saxon: *flaska
  - Middle Low German: vlasche
    - German Low German: Fless
- Old Dutch: *flasca
  - Middle Dutch: flassce, flesce, vlessche, vlesch, vles
    - Dutch: fles
- Old High German: flasca, flaska
  - Middle High German: vlasche, flesche
    - Alemannic German: Fläsche
      Swabian: Flasch
    - Central Franconian:
      Kölsch: Fläsch
    - German: Flasche
      - → Macedonian: флаша (flaša)
      - → Polish: flasza
        ⇒ Polish: flaszka
        → Belarusian: пляшка (pljaška)
        → Ukrainian: пля́шка (pljáška), фля́жка (fljážka)
      - → Serbo-Croatian:
        Cyrillic script: флаша
        Latin script: flaša
      - → Slovak: fľaša
    - Luxembourgish: Fläsch
    - Rhine Franconian:
      Hessian: Flasch
    - Vilamovian: fłoś
    - Yiddish: פֿלאַש (flash)
  - → Russian: фля́жка (fljážka)
- → Late Latin: flascō, flasca (see there for further descendants)
Old Norse: flaska
- Icelandic: flaska
- Faroese: fløska
- Norwegian Nynorsk: flaske, flaska
- Swedish: flaska
- Danish: flaske
  - Norwegian Bokmål: flaske