Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/flaskā

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 edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ.

Noun edit

*flaskā f^[1]

bottle, flask

Inflection edit

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*flaskā
Genitive	*flaskōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*flaskā	*flaskōn
Accusative	*flaskōn	*flaskōn
Genitive	*flaskōn	*flaskōnō
Dative	*flaskōn	flaskōm, flaskum
Instrumental	*flaskōn	flaskōm, flaskum

Alternative reconstructions edit

*flahskā^[2]

Descendants edit

Old English: flasce, flaxe
- Middle English: flask, flaske (partly)
  - English: flask
  - Scots: flask, flas
Old Frisian: *fleske, *flesche
- West Frisian: flesse
Old Saxon: *flaska
- Middle Low German: vlasche
  - German Low German: Fless
Old Dutch: *flasca
- Middle Dutch: flassce, flesce, vlessche, vlesch, vles
  - Dutch: fles
Old High German: flasca, flaska
- Middle High German: vlasche, flesche
  - Alemannic German: Fläsche
    Swabian: Flasch
  - Central Franconian:
    Kölsch: Fläsch
  - German: Flasche
    - → Macedonian: флаша (flaša)
    - → Polish: flasza
      - ⇒ Polish: flaszka
        → Belarusian: пляшка (pljaška)
        → Ukrainian: пля́шка (pljáška), фля́жка (fljážka)
    - → Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: флаша
      Latin script: flaša
    - → Slovak: fľaša
  - Luxembourgish: Fläsch
  - Rhine Franconian:
    Hessian: Flasch
  - Vilamovian: fłoś
  - Yiddish: פֿלאַש (flash)
- → Russian: фля́жка (fljážka)
→ Late Latin: flascō, flasca (see there for further descendants)

References edit

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 192: “PWGmc *flaskā, *flaskōn-”
^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “flaska”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 15/2: Germanismes: Bu–F, page 137: “*flahsk-”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 192: “PWGmc *flaskā, *flaskōn-”

[2] Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “flaska”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 15/2: Germanismes: Bu–F, page 137: “*flahsk-”

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