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Fla in  flou,  flau, floi; the latter is of  origin (see ), so that   is finally derived from a pre- hléwa-. .  , (Up.  also), ‘down,’ from  phlûme,,  pflûma, ‘down,’ from  plûma, whence also  plûmfëþere. As the shifting of the initial sound proves, however, the word must have been borrowed in the earlier period;  the  word (also derived from the ) clúm, ‘feather’ ( plumauc, ‘pillow’). and have for  an apparently genuine  word (see . It is certainly recorded by Pliny that  tribes in the olden time sent flocks of geese to Rome; but perhaps it was only ‘down’ (see also ), which was valuable to the Southerners, and so the  pluma may hare been introduced into  at an early period. The initial f of the  form for pf may be due to the connection with .   ',,  ‘a tuft of wool,’ then ‘a woollen coat, pilot cloth,’ from  vlûs, ‘fleece, sheepskin,’ a variant of  vlies. See .   ', , ‘trick, pretence,’ simply ModHG;  *vlûse does not occur; it is probably connected with  giflôs,  ‘whispering,’ giflôsida, , ‘illusion,’ flôsâri, ‘liar.’   , , ‘sinew, tendon,’ only , from  flexus.   ,, ‘plait, braid (of hair), wattle, lichen,’ from late vlëhte, t., ‘plait, lock of hair,’ allied to the following word.  ,, ‘to plait, braid, wreathe,’ from the  vlëhten,  vlëhtan; a corresponding  *flaíhtan, akin to flahta, , ‘lock of hair,’ is wanting;  flétta for flehtan. root fleht, from pre- plekt; the t, as also in plecto compared with plicare, was  only a formative element of the present tense, for according to  πλέκω, πλοκή, πλόκος, the Aryan root must have been plek;   praçna, ‘braid, basket.’  (root falþ) and  (root fleh) are entirely unrelated.  ', ',, , with many senses which are historically the same, ‘spot, stain, patch,’ from vlëc, vlëcke, , ‘piece of stuff, patch, rag, piece of land, place, spot, differently coloured spot, stain, blemish,’  flëc, flëccho;  vlek, , ‘spot of dirt,’ vlek, , ‘village’;   *flikka- or *flikkan- (or rather *þl-) is wanting;   flekkr (  flekkja), , ‘a fleck, spot, stain,’ as well as flík, , ‘rag, piece of stuff.’ Its connection with  flikke,  flicce,  flitch, is dubious. See.   ,, ‘bat,’ from the  vlëdermûs,  flëdarmûs, ; corresponds to  vledermuis;  flittermouse does not occur in , and may be due to the influence of  Teutonic. That the animal was thought to be a mouse is shown by hreape-, hrêremûs; the  term bat,  backe,  aftenbakke (aften, ‘evening’), is unique. , ‘fluttering mouse,’ from  flëdarôn,  vlëdern, ‘to flutter.’   ,, first occurs in early with a reference to flëdern, ‘to flutter.’ In  once vëderwisch,  vederwisch;  ‘a goosewing for dusting,’ or rather , ‘whisk for fanning away.’ <section end="Flederwisch" /> <section begin="Flegel" /> ,, ‘flail, churl,’ from  vlęgel,  flęgil, , ‘flail’;   vlegel,  flail; probably from  flagellum, ‘quo frumentum teritur’ (whence also  fleau, ‘flail’). On account of its meaning it cannot be connected with the root flah, ‘to flay’ ( flá, ‘to flay’). Yet it may be allied to  plakù, plàkti, ‘to strike,’  plango,  πλήγνυμι, ‘to strike.’ <section end="Flegel" /> ,, ‘to implore, supplicate,’ from vlêhen,  flêhan, flêhôn, ‘to implore,’  also ‘to fondle, flatter’; initial fl for earlier þl, as in  ( þliuhan);   gaþláihan (ai a genuine diphthong), ‘to fondle, embrace, console, exhort in a friendly way,’ akin to  gaþláihts, , ‘comfort, warning.’ Also allied to  flár, ‘false, cunning,’  flâh. ‘wily, cunning,’ both pointing to *þlaiha-. The primary meaning of the root flaih was perhaps ‘importunate, insinuating speech.’ <section begin="Fleisch" /> ,, ‘flesh, meat, pulp (of fruit),’ from the  vleisch,  fleisk, ; it has the same meaning in West  and. Strange to say, a *flaisk, *flaiskis,  (or þl-  ), is not recorded, the term used being leik or mims,. vleesch, flœ̂sc,  flesh;  flesk is used only of ‘pork,’ and more especially of ‘ham’ and ‘bacon,’ while kjǫt was the common  word for ‘meat.’ It may well be imagined<section end="Fleisch" />