Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective. · To become imperfect or defective; to crack or break.
A flake, fragment, or shiver. · A thin cake, as of ice. · A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion. · A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
From Middle English flawe, flay (“a flake of fire or snow, spark, splinter”), probably from Old Norse flaga (“a flag or slab of stone, flake”), from Proto-Germanic *flagō (“a layer of soil”), from Proto-Indo-European *plok- (“broad, flat”). Cognate with Icelandic flaga (“flake”), Swedish flaga (“flake, scale”), Danish flage (“flake”), Middle Low German vlage (“a layer of soil”), Old English flōh (“a fragment, piece”).
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