Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *flahsąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_flahsą
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Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013πλάξanything flat and broad*pleḱ-to fold, plait, weave
nounneutera-stemflaxUsually derived from pre-Germanic *ploḱ-s-ó-m, a thematicized s-stem noun from Proto-Indo-European root *pleḱ- (‘to fold, plait, weave’) Kroonen 2013. However, a link with Van Beek’s (2022) root *plek- (‘to strip, flay, tear’), related to Ancient Greek πλάξ (pláx, ‘any-thing flat and broad’), seems like a better semantic fit.