vlek
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vlek m inan
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From Middle Dutch vleck, vlecke (also vlacke), from Old Dutch flec (attested as a byname) and *flekko, from Proto-Germanic *flekka- (“spot, mark, blemish”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂g-, *pleh₂k- (“to beat, strike”).
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vlek f or m (plural vlekken, diminutive vlekje n)
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vlek n (plural vlekken, diminutive vlekje n)
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- Matthias de Vries, Lambert Allard te Winkel (1864) “vlek”, in Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, published 2001