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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/flaþō

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

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”).

Noun

*flaþō m[3]

  1. thin fried batter cake, pancake

Inflection
Masculine an-stem
Singular
Nominative *flaþō
Genitive *flaþini, *flaþan
Singular Plural
Nominative *flaþō *flaþan
Accusative *flaþan *flaþan
Genitive *flaþini, *flaþan *flaþanō
Dative *flaþini, *flaþan *flaþum
Instrumental *flaþini, *flaþan *flaþum
  • *flat
  • *flatti

Descendants
  • Old English: *flaþa
    • Middle English: flathe
    • ⇒ Old English: flæþecomb, fleþecomb
  • Old Saxon: *flatho
    • Middle Low German: vlāde
      • >? German Low German: Flarr
      • → Norwegian: flade (dialectal)
  • Old Dutch: *flatho, *flatha
  • Old High German: flado m, flada f
  • → Latin: fladō[4]

References
  1. Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Fladen”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 217: “*flaþōn”
  2. Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*flaþō(n)”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 105
  3. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*flata-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 144-145: “*flaþan-”
  4. Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 90
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