Etymology Explorer › Middle High German

Where does “vlīz” come from?

vlīz (Middle High German) comes from Old High German flīz, from Proto-Germanic *flītan, from Proto-Germanic flītaz.

Ancestry of “vlīz”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old High Germanflīz—
2Proto-Germanic*flītan—
3Proto-Germanicflītaz—

Words derived from “vlīz”

  • Fleiß
  • fleißig
  • flajsik
Every word from Proto-Germanic flītaz →