Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo flutter; palpitate. · To hang loosely; flag. · To beat by flapping.
From Middle English flacken (“to palpitate, flutter”), from Old English *flaccian, from Proto-West Germanic *flakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *flakkōną (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ-, which could be related to Ancient Greek πλάζω (plázō, “to turn away from”). Akin to Middle Dutch vlacken (“to flicker, flash, sparkle”), Danish flakke (“to wander”), Swedish flacka (“to rove, rove about, ramble”), Icelandic flakka (“to move”). Compare also Icelandic flaka (“to flap, hang loose”), Swedish flaxa (“to flap, flutter”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionflackenenm · to palpitate, flutter
- Inherited-form mention*flaccianang
- Inherited-form mention*flakkōngmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*flakkōnągem-pro · to beat
- Inherited-form mention*pleḱ-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionπλάζωgrc
- Cognate mentionvlackendum
- Cognate mentionflakkeda
- Cognate mentionflackasv
- Cognate mentionflakkais
- Cognate mentionflakais
- Cognate mentionflaxasv
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