*flikkiją

Runic: ᚠᛚᛁᚲᛁᛃᚨ Pronunciation: /ˈɸlik.ki.jɑ̃/

noun · neuter · ja-stem

Meanings

piece of meat
side of bacon; flitch

Etymology

Seemingly a collective noun derived from *flekkaz (‘spot; mark; blemish’), but the semantics do not quite fit. A better fit would be a connection with *flahaną (‘to skin, flay’) and *flaiski (‘meat, flesh’). Van (Beek 2022) derives a root *plek- uniting *flahaną with Ancient Greek πλάξ (pláx) (pláx, ‘anything flat and broad’) that could form the basis for these related terms. The geminate -kk- could come from a Kluge’s Law derivation, *plek-nó-s or as an “expressive” formation (for more, see Lühr 1988)), creating an original homonym of *flekkaz which was then reformulated as a collective noun.

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	flikkiją	flikkijō
Acc.	flikkiją	flikkijō
Gen.	flikkijas, flikkīs	flikkijǫ̂
Dat.	flikkijai	flikkijamaz
Inst.	flikkijō	flikkijamiz
Voc.	flikkiją	flikkijō

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Descendants

*flikkī (Proto-West Germanic)
- *flikki (Old Dutch)
  - vlicke, vlecke, vlec (Middle Dutch)
    - vlik, vlek (Dutch)
*flikkī (Proto-West Germanic)
- fliċċe (Old English)
  - flicche (Middle English)
    - flitch (English)
    - fleech (Scots)
*flikkī (Proto-West Germanic)
- *flikki (Old Saxon)
  - vlicke, vlek, vlecke (Middle Low German)
    - vlecke, vlec (Middle High German)
flikki (Old Norse)
- flikki (Faroese)
- flikki (Icelandic)
flikki (Old Norse)
- flikke, flykke (Middle English)
  - flick (English)
  - flake (Scots)
*liikkijo (Proto-Finnic)

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