Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/flaiski

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

Etymology

Of unclear origin; appears to stem from a Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”), albeit with all supposed cognates being uncertain. Has been linked to Latin lāridum (“lard”), Proto-Germanic *flikkiją (“piece of meat; flitch”), *flīkō (“tatters, rags”) (whence Old Norse flík (“idem”)), *flīsō (“split chip”) (whence German Fliese (“tile”), Old Norse flís (“splinter, wood chip”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸlɑi̯.ski/

Noun

*flaiski n

1. meat, flesh

Inflection

neuter i-stemDeclension of *flaiski (neuter i-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*flaiski	*flaiskī
vocative	*flaiski	*flaiskī
accusative	*flaiski	*flaiskī
genitive	*flaiskīz	*flaiskijǫ̂
dative	*flaiskī	*flaiskimaz
instrumental	*flaiskī	*flaiskimiz

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *flaiski
  • Old English: flǣsċ
    • Middle English: flesh
      • English: flesh
      • Scots: flesch
      • Yola: vleash, vlesh
  • Old Frisian: flāsk, flēsk
    • North Frisian:

      Mooring: flååsch

    • Saterland Frisian: Flaask
    • West Frisian: fleis
  • Old Saxon: flēsk
    • Middle Low German: vlêsk, vlêsch, vlês
      • German Low German: (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

        Low Prussian: Sauerländisch (Olpe, Wenden): Fleisch

        Märkisch (Altmärkisch), Westphalian (Bentheimisch): Fleesch

        Märkisch (Altmärkisch), Westphalian (Westmünsterländisch): Fleesk

        Westphalian:

        Bentheimisch (Grafschaf), Sauerländisch (Sündern, Balve, Eslohe, Attendorn, Drolshagen, Kirchhundem): Fläis

        Bentheimisch (Grafschaf), Westmünsterländisch: Flees

        East Westphalian (Ravensberg), Sauerländisch: Fläisk

        East Westphalian: Floisk (Lippe)

        Sauerländisch: Flääsk (Niedersfeld), Flais (Felbecke, Elspe)

      • Plautdietsch: Fleesch
  • Old Dutch: flēsc
    • Middle Dutch: vlêesch
      • Dutch: vlees, vleesch (obsolete), vleis (dialectal, Eastern Netherlands, North Holland)
        • Afrikaans: vleis
        • Negerhollands: vleesch, fleis, vleis
        • → West Frisian: fleis
      • Limburgish: vleisj
  • Old High German: fleisk
    • Middle High German: vleisch, fleis, fleisch, flēsch, vleis, vlēsch
      • Alemannic German:

        Swabian: Floisch

      • Bavarian:

        Cimbrian: vlòas, blòas, vlaisch

      • Central Franconian: Fleesch, Fleisch, Flääsch

        Hunsrik: Fleisch

        Luxembourgish: Fleesch

      • German: Fleisch
      • Rhine Franconian: Flaasch, Flaisch, Fleesch

        Pennsylvania German: Fleesch

      • Vilamovian: fłaś
      • Yiddish: פֿלייש (fleysh)
• Old Norse: fleski, flesk
  • Icelandic: fleski, flesk
  • Faroese: flesk
  • Norwegian: flesk
  • Old Swedish: flæsk
    • Swedish: fläsk
    • → Finnish: läski
  • Old Danish: flæsk
    • Danish: flæsk