Where does “fleete” come from?

fleete (North Frisian) comes from Proto-Germanic fleutaną, from Proto-Indo-European plewd-, from Proto-Indo-European plew- — to fly, flow, run.

fleete (North Frisian): to run

Definitions

  1. to run

Ancestry of “fleete”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicfleutanąto float, stream
2Proto-Indo-Europeanplewd-to fly, flow, run
3Proto-Indo-Europeanplew-to fly, flow, run
Every word from Proto-Indo-European plew- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European plewd- →Every word from Proto-Germanic fleutaną →