*flaskǭ

Runic: ᚠᛚᚨᛊᚲᛟ Pronunciation: /ˈɸlɑs.kɔ̃ː/

noun · feminine · ōn-stem

Meanings

a plaiting-covered vessel
bottle, flask

Etymology

Possibly from earlier *flahtskō, from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱt-sk-eh2 from root *pleḱ- (‘to fold, plait, weave’) with the semantics of a plaited container for liquid (Blažek 2014), but this requires consonant cluster simplification. (Pisani 1976) has a similar idea with root *pleh₁- (‘to fill’), from PIE *plh₁-sk-eh₂ > pre-Germanic *pləskā. While the semantics of this are much better (‘a thing that is filled’), the phonology is less certain. (Vennemann 1984) includes this among words of early Proto-Germanic vocabulary suspected of non-Indo-European/substrate origin.

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	flaskǭ	flaskōniz
Acc.	flaskōnų	flaskōnunz
Gen.	flaskōniz	flaskōnǫ̂
Dat.	flaskōni	flaskōmaz
Inst.	flaskōnē	flaskōmiz
Voc.	flaskǭ	flaskōniz

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Descendants

*flaskā (Proto-West Germanic)
- flascō, flasca (Late Latin)
*flahskā, *flaskā (Proto-West Germanic)
- *flasca (Old Dutch)
  - flassce, flesce, vlessche, vlesch, vles (Middle Dutch)
    - fles (Dutch)
      - fles (Afrikaans)
*flahskā, *flaskā (Proto-West Germanic)
- flasce, flaxe (Old English)
  - flask, flaske (Middle English)
    - flask, flas (Scots)
*flahskā, *flaskā (Proto-West Germanic)
- *fleske, *flesche (Old Frisian)
  - flesse (West Frisian)
*flahskā, *flaskā (Proto-West Germanic)
- flasca, flaska (Old High German)
  - vlasche, flesche (Middle High German)
    - Fläsche (Alemannic German)
    - Fläsch (Luxembourgish)
    - פֿלאַש (flash) (Yiddish)
*flahskā, *flaskā (Proto-West Germanic)
- *flaska (Old Saxon)
  - vlasche (Middle Low German)
    - Fless (Low German)
flaska (Old Norse)
- fløska (Faroese)
- flaska (Icelandic)
- flaske, flaska (Norwegian Nynorsk)
- flaska (Swedish)
flaska (Old Norse)
- flaske (Danish)
  - flaske (Norwegian Bokmål)

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