Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *flauhazScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_flauhaz
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On Germanic-Saami contacts and Saami prehistoryAnteAikioSuomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Aikakauskirja919–552006ψῠ́λλᾰflea*plewk-to fly, flow, run; to splash, flap with handspūlexfleablusàfleaप्लुषि॑a species of noxious insect
nounmasculinea-stemfleaFrom pre-Germanic *plówk-o-s, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (‘to fly, flow, run’), though possibly reformulated from *plóws-o-s from PIE *plus- (‘flea’; compare Latin pūlex (‘flea’), Lithuanian blusà (‘flea’), Sanskrit प्लुषि॑ (plúṣi, ‘a species of noxious insect’), Old Armenian լու (lu, ‘flea’), and Ancient Greek ψῠ́λλᾰ (psŭ́llă, ‘flea’)). The reformulation may have developed under the influence of *fleuhaną (‘to flee; to escape’). The West Proto-Germanic reflexes in -h and the Proto-Samic reflexes show that the original word was a masculine a-stem, as ō-stems are generally borrowed with the same final vocalism (cf. PGmc *bergō > PSmc *pierkō, PGmc *farō > PSmc *fārō) Aikio 2006 and that North Proto-Germanic speakers later reanalyzed it as a feminine ō-stem.