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Where does “flāmisk” come from?

flāmisk (Old Dutch) comes from Old Frisian *flām, from Proto-Germanic flaumaz, from Proto-Indo-European plew- — to fly, flow, run.

Ancestry of “flāmisk”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frisian*flām—
2Proto-Germanicflaumazstream; current; flood; eddy
3Proto-Indo-Europeanplew-to fly, flow, run
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