Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/flint

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

Presumably from Proto-Germanic *flintaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to cleave, split off, splice”).

Noun

*flint n

1. peddle
2. flint

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*flint
Genitive	*flintas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*flint	*flintō, *flintōs
Accusative	*flint	*flintā
Genitive	*flintas	*flintō
Dative	*flintē	*flintum
Instrumental	*flintu	*flintum

Derived terms

• *flintastain

Descendants

• Old English: flint
  • Middle English: flynt, flent, flint, flinte, flynte, vlint
    • English: flint
    • Scots: flint
    • → Welsh: fflint
• Old Frisian: *flint
  • West Frisian: flint, flinte
• Old Saxon: *flint
  • Middle Low German: vlint
    • → Danish: flint
    • → Middle High German: flünt, flint
      • German: Flint
    • → Norwegian: flint
    • → Swedish: flinta
      • → German: Flinte
        • → Czech: flinta
        • → Hungarian: flinta
          • → Romanian: flintă
        • → Plautdietsch: Flint
        • → Polish: flinta
• Old Dutch: *flint
  • Middle Dutch: vlint
    • Dutch: flint
• Old High German: flins
  • Middle High German: vlins, flins
    • → Middle Low German: vlins, flins