Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA small swampy or marshy area, especially near a stream.
Attested chiefly as vly, rarely as vlaie or fly. From a dialectal form of Middle Dutch valeye, which meant “valley” in standard Dutch; a semantic shift to meaning “swamp” occurred either in Middle Dutch or independently in the speech of both the Dutch colonists of America and the Dutch colonists of South Africa (producing Afrikaans vlei). Doublet of vlei.
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