Flöz

See also: fl oz and fl. oz.

German

Etymology

From older flez, from Middle High German vletz, vletze (“threshing floor”), from Old High German flezzi, from Proto-West Germanic *flatti, from Proto-Germanic *flatją (“floor”). Cognate with Low German Flett, Old English flett, Old Norse flet.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fløːt͡s/
Hyphenation: Flöz
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Noun

Flöz n or m (strong, genitive Flözes, plural Flöze)

(geology) seam

Declension

Declension of Flöz [neuter // masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das, der	Flöz	die	Flöze
genitive	eines	des	Flözes	der	Flöze
dative	einem	dem	Flöz, Flöze¹	den	Flözen
accusative	ein, einen	das, den	Flöz	die	Flöze

¹Now rare, see notes.

References

Friedrich Kluge (1995) “Flöz”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 23rd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 275

Further reading

Flöz on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
“Flöz” in Duden online
“Flöz” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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