Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/flunþrijǭ

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

From *flunþrą (“something flat”). Compare cognate Late Latin platessa (“flatfish, plaice”).

Noun

*flunþrijǭ f

flounder, flatfish

Declension

ōn-stemDeclension of *flunþrijǭ (ōn-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*flunþrijǭ	*flunþrijōniz
vocative	*flunþrijǭ	*flunþrijōniz
accusative	*flunþrijōnų	*flunþrijōnunz
genitive	*flunþrijōniz	*flunþrijōnǫ̂
dative	*flunþrijōni	*flunþrijōmaz
instrumental	*flunþrijōnē	*flunþrijōmiz

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *flunþrijā
- Old Saxon: *fluntheria, *flunthera
  - Middle Low German: flundere, vlunder
    - German Low German: Flunder, Flunner, Flinder, Flinger, Flonder
    - → German: Flunder, Flünder
      - → Bavarian: Flunder
      - → Czech: flundra
      - → Polish: flądra
      - → Swabian: Flander
    - → Swedish: flunder
Old Norse: flyðra, *flundra, *flyndra
- Icelandic: flyðra
- Faroese: flundra
- Norwegian Nynorsk: flundre, flyndre
- Norwegian Bokmål: flyndre
- Old Swedish: flundra
  - Swedish: flundra
- Old Danish: flundra, flynder
  - Danish: flynder
- → Old Northern French: flondre, flundre, floundre
  - Norman: fliandre
  - → Middle English: flowndre, flowndur, flondyre, flounder, ffloundre, floundre, flundre
    - English: flounder
    - Scots: flunner, flunder