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Where does “vlijt” come from?

vlijt (Middle Dutch) comes from Old Dutch flīt, from Proto-West Germanic flīt, from Proto-Germanic flītaz.

Ancestry of “vlijt”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Dutchflīt—
2Proto-West Germanicflīt—
3Proto-Germanicflītaz—

Words derived from “vlijt”

  • vlijt
  • vlijtig
Every word from Proto-Germanic flītaz →