Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/flunþrijǭ

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

From *flunþrą (“something flat”). Compare cognate Late Latin platessa (“flatfish, plaice”).

Noun

*flunþrijǭ f

1. flounder, flatfish

Declension

ōn-stemDeclension of *flunþrijǭ (ōn-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*flunþrijǭ	*flunþrijōniz
vocative	*flunþrijǭ	*flunþrijōniz
accusative	*flunþrijōnų	*flunþrijōnunz
genitive	*flunþrijōniz	*flunþrijōnǫ̂
dative	*flunþrijōni	*flunþrijōmaz
instrumental	*flunþrijōnē	*flunþrijōmiz

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *flunþrijā
  • Old Saxon: *fluntheria, *flunthera
    • Middle Low German: flundere, vlunder
      • German Low German: Flunder, Flunner, Flinder, Flinger, Flonder
      • → German: Flunder, Flünder
        • → Bavarian: Flunder
        • → Czech: flundra
        • → Polish: flądra
        • → Swabian: Flander
      • → Swedish: flunder
• Old Norse: flyðra, *flundra, *flyndra
  • Icelandic: flyðra
  • Faroese: flundra
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: flundre, flyndre
  • Norwegian Bokmål: flyndre
  • Old Swedish: flundra
    • Swedish: flundra
  • Old Danish: flundra, flynder
    • Danish: flynder
  • → Old Northern French: flondre, flundre, floundre
    • Norman: fliandre
    • → Middle English: flowndre, flowndur, flondyre, flounder, ffloundre, floundre, flundre
      • English: flounder
      • Scots: flunner, flunder