vlerk
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editFrom Dutch vlerk, from Middle Dutch vlerc. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
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editvlerk (plural vlerke)
Dutch
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Dutch vlerc, vlederic, from Old Dutch fetherak, from Proto-West Germanic *feþerak (“wing”), from *feþru (“feather”). The -l- visible from Middle Dutch onward likely arose through the influence of words such as vlueghel/vloghel (“wing”), vliegen (“to fly”), vleder (“wing”). Cognates include Old High German federah.
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editNoun
editvlerk m or f (plural vlerken, diminutive vlerkje n)
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