Where does “fläns” come from?

fläns (Swedish) comes from English flange, from English flanch, from Old French flanche, from Frankish *hlanku.

fläns (Swedish): a flange, a rim, an extruding edge of a pipe or mechanism

Definitions

  1. a flange, a rim, an extruding edge of a pipe or mechanism

Ancestry of “fläns”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishflangeAn external or internal rib or rim, used either...
2EnglishflanchA flange; A bearing consisting of a circle...
3Old Frenchflancheflank, side
4Frankish*hlanku—

Words derived from “fläns”

Every word from Frankish *hlanku →Every word from Old French flanche →Every word from English flanch →