Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To reward (a hound, bird of prey etc.) with flesh of the animal killed, to excite it for further hunting; to train (an animal) to have an appetite for flesh. · To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh. · To inure or habituate someone in or to a given practice. · To glut.
The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat. · The skin of a human or animal. · Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso. · Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).
From Middle English flesh, flesch, flæsch, from Old English flǣsċ, from Proto-West Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Germanic *flaiski, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”). Cognates Cognate with Yola vleash, vlesh (“flesh”), North Frisian flaasch, flaosk, Fleesk, fleäsk, floask, flääsk, flååsch (“flesh, meat”), Saterland Frisian Flaask (“flesh, meat”), West Frisian fleis (“flesh, meat”), Cimbrian blòas, vlaisch, vlòas (“flesh, meat”), Dutch vlees, vleesch (“flesh, meat”), German Fleisch (“flesh, meat”), German Low German and Luxembourgish Fleesch (“flesh, meat”), Vilamovian fłaś (“meat; muscle”), Yiddish פֿלייש (fleysh, “flesh, meat”), Danish flæsk (“pork; bacon”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Norwegian Nynorsk flesk (“pork; bacon”), Swedish fläsk (“pork”).
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionfleshenm
- Inherited-form mentionflǣsċang
- Inherited-form mention*flaiskigmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*flaiskigem-pro
- Derivation mention*pleh₁ḱ-ine-pro · to tear, peel off
- Cognate mentionvleashyol
- Cognate mentionflaaschfrr
- Cognate mentionFlaaskstq · flesh, meat
- Cognate mentionfleisfy · flesh, meat
- Cognate mentionblòascim
- Cognate mentionvleesnl
- Cognate mentionFleischde · flesh, meat
- Cognate mentionfłaśwym · meat; muscle
- Cognate mentionפֿליישyi · flesh, meat
- Cognate mentionflæskda · pork; bacon
- Cognate mentionfläsksv · pork
This page abbreviates 9 auxiliary source items. The etymology narrative is not shortened. Omission counts are available in the audit fields below; consult the original for complete auxiliary material.
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