Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/flahs

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 *flahsą.

Noun

*flahs n^[1]

flax

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*flahs
Genitive	*flahsas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*flahs	*flahsu
Accusative	*flahs	*flahsu
Genitive	*flahsas	*flahsō
Dative	*flahsē	*flahsum
Instrumental	*flahsu	*flahsum

Descendants

Old English: fleax, flæx, flex
- Middle English: flax, fflex, flaxe, flex, flexe, vlex
  - English: flax
Old Frisian: flax
- Saterland Frisian: Floaks
- West Frisian: flaaks
Old Saxon: *flahs
- Middle Low German: vlas
  - Low German: Flass
    - German Low German: Flass
  - Plautdietsch: Flauss
Old Dutch: *flas (only in toponyms)
- Middle Dutch: vlas
  - Dutch: vlas
    - Afrikaans: vlas
Old High German: flahs
- Middle High German: vlahs
  - German: Flachs
  - Luxembourgish: Fluess
  - Rhine Franconian: Flaas, Flas, Flachs
  - Vilamovian: fłaoks

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 176: “PWGmc *flahs”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 176: “PWGmc *flahs”

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