Where does “flietan” come from?

flietan (Old Dutch) comes from Proto-West Germanic fleutan, from Proto-Germanic fleutaną, from Proto-Indo-European plewd-, from Proto-Indo-European plew- — to fly, flow, run.

flietan (Old Dutch): to float; to flow; to melt

Definitions

  1. to float; to flow; to melt

Ancestry of “flietan”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanicfleutanto float; to stream
2Proto-Germanicfleutanąto float, stream
3Proto-Indo-Europeanplewd-to fly, flow, run
4Proto-Indo-Europeanplew-to fly, flow, run

Words derived from “flietan”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European plew- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European plewd- →Every word from Proto-Germanic fleutaną →
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