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fleah

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Manx

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Etymology

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From Old Irish fled. Cognate with Irish fleá.

Noun

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fleah m (genitive singular fleah, plural fleahnyn)

  1. feast

Mutation

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Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fleah leah vleah
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Germanic *flauhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *plówkos, a variant of *plúsis (flea). Cognate with Old High German flōh, Old Norse fló.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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flēah m

  1. flea
Declension
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Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative flēah flēas
accusative flēah flēas
genitive flēas flēana
dative flēa flēam, flēaum
Descendants
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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flēah

  1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative of flēogan