Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/flaiski

This Proto-West 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-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *flaiski.

Noun

*flaiski n^[1]

meat, flesh

Inflection

i-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*flaiski
Genitive	*flaiskī
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*flaiski	*flaiskī
Accusative	*flaiski	*flaiskī
Genitive	*flaiskī	*flaiskijō
Dative	*flaiskī	flaiskim, flaiskijum
Instrumental	*flaiskī	flaiskim, flaiskijum

Derived terms

*flaiskijan

Descendants

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: ^{The template Template:rfc-sense does not use the parameter(s): 2="Low Prussian: Sauerländisch (Olpe, Wenden):" Sauerländisch is not Part of Prussian.
    Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.}(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: fleisch, fleis, vleisch
  - 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)

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 126: “*flaiski”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 126: “*flaiski”

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