Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/flaskǭ

This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

Possibly from earlier *flahtskō, from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to weave”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) Orel alternatively compares the word to Lithuanian plókščias (“flat”), Proto-Slavic *ploskъ (“idem”), with these terms possibly also stemming from *pleḱ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸlɑs.kɔ̃ː/

Noun

*flaskǭ f

1. a plaiting-covered vessel
2. bottle, flask

Inflection

ōn-stemDeclension of *flaskǭ (ōn-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*flaskǭ	*flaskōniz
vocative	*flaskǭ	*flaskōniz
accusative	*flaskōnų	*flaskōnunz
genitive	*flaskōniz	*flaskōnǫ̂
dative	*flaskōni	*flaskōmaz
instrumental	*flaskōnē	*flaskōmiz

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *flaskā, *flahskā
  • Old English: flasce, flaxe
    • Middle English: flask, flaske (partly)
      • English: flask
        • → Irish: fleasc
        • → Welsh: fflasg
      • 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
        • Afrikaans: 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)
        • → Old Slovak: fľaša, fľäša
          • Pannonian Rusyn: фляша (fljaša)
          • Slovak: fľaša
        • → Polish: flasza
          • ⇒ Polish: flaszka
            • → Belarusian: пля́шка (pljáška)
            • → Ukrainian: пля́шка (pljáška), фля́жка (fljážka)
        • → Serbo-Croatian:

          Cyrillic script: флаша

          Latin script: flaša

      • Luxembourgish: Fläsch
      • Rhine Franconian:

        Hessian: Flasch

      • Vilamovian: fłoś
      • Yiddish: פֿלאַש (flash)
    • → Russian: фля́жка (fljážka)
  • → Late Latin: flascō, flasca (see there for further descendants)
• Old Norse: flaska
  • Icelandic: flaska
  • Faroese: fløska
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: flaske, flaska
  • Swedish: flaska
  • Danish: flaske
    • Norwegian Bokmål: flaske