Where does “fliotan” come from?

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

fliotan (Old Saxon): to float

Definitions

  1. to float

Ancestry of “fliotan”, 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
Every word from Proto-Indo-European plew- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European plewd- →Every word from Proto-Germanic fleutaną →