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Flu 'corn field,’ was unknown to the older language; vluor,, , ‘cornfield, floor, ground.’ The meanings ‘entrance to a house, vestibule, paved floor,’ belong to  and ;   vloer, ‘vestibule, barn-floor,’  flôr, , , ‘vestibule, barn-floor,’ also ‘storey,’  floor;  flór, ‘floor’ of a cow-house ( flôrus is wanting). The resulting meaning, ‘floor,’ has been extended only in  to ‘corn-field.’  flóru-s, from pre- plôrus, plârus, is most closely related to  lár for *plár, ‘floor, paved floor.’  plonis, ‘barn-floor,’ has a different suffix; it is allied to  plónas, ‘flat’; hence perhaps it may be connected with  plânus.   ,, ‘to whisper,’ earlier , from  flistran, ‘to caress,’ to which the old (also Swiss) forms , , ‘to whisper,’ are allied;  also  fluisteren.   ,, ‘river, stream, flow,’ from vluȥ,  fluȥ, , ‘river, stream, cast, bronze cast, rheumatism’; in these senses simply a  derivative of , pointing to Goth *fluti-. flyte signifies a peculiar kind of ‘vessel, pontoon.’ For the genuinely word for ‘river, flowing water,’ see under ;  also.   ,, ‘fluid, liquid,’ from vlüȥȥec, ‘liquid, flowing,’  fluȥȥig; like , a specifically  form.   ,, ‘flood, inundation, billow,’ from the  vluot, , ,  fluot, ; a word common to ;   flôdus, ,  flôþ,  flôd, , ,  flood,  flôd,  vloed. flôdus, from pre- plôtú-s, is based upon a root flô (from pre- plô);   flôwan,  to  to flow,  flóa, ‘to flow.’ Akin to the  root πλω in πλώ-ω, ‘to float, sail, πλωτός, ‘floating, sailing, navigable.’ Perhaps this Aryan root plô is related to the Aryan root plu mentioned under  and ; yet there is no direct connection between  and  and  πλύνω.   ,, ‘sail on the foremast,’ simply , borrowed from ;  fok, ‘foremast,’  fok,  fock, ‘foresail.’   ,, ‘foal,’ from vol, vole,  folo, , ‘colt, foal’;   fula, , ‘foal (of an ass),’  fole, ‘foal’ (of a horse, rarely of an ass),   fola, ,  foal; a term common to  for the young of a horse or an ass, derived from pre- pelón-, Related by gradation to  πῶλος, ‘colt,’ as a general term ‘young animal,’ and  pullus, ‘the young,’ especially of fowls. See.   ,, a Swiss word, ‘humid and tempestuous south wind’; the corresponding term in is wanting, though  fônna,  (fônno, ), ‘rainy wind, whirlwind,’ is recorded; from  favonius (the intermediate form is faunio-), whence also  favonio, Rhæto- favuogn. <section end="Föhn" /> <section begin="Föhre" /> ,, ‘fir,’ from vorhe,  forha, , ‘pine-tree’; corresponding to  furh, ,  fir ( firre, formed from  fyr),  fura, , ‘fir’;  *faúrhus, , is wanting. If the initial f is to be regarded as in related to  quattuor,  may be connected with  quercus, ‘oak’; for the change of meaning  and  might be compared. In earlier, ‘oak,’ is also recorded once, and is akin to  vereh-eih,  fereha, ‘æsculus.’ Thus the connection between  and quercus (pre- qṛku-) is certain. In any case, is not a cognate. ,, , are the few names of trees whose existence can be traced beyond. also. <section end="Föhre" /> ,, ‘to follow, succeed, result, obey,’ from the  volgen,  folgên;   volgen,  fylgan, folgian,  to follow,  fylgja; the verb common to West  and  for ‘follow,’ which has supplanted the common Aryan verbal root seg (see ),  sequi. The origin of the cognates is uncertain. There are indications that the verbal stem is a compound; the first component may be ;  ful-eóde, ‘he followed,’  and  fulgangan,  fola gân, ‘to follow.’ Consequently  ( gên, gân) is the second part of the word. The composite nature of the word is supported by the fact that there are no old and widely diffused derivatives of the verb. It is true that the connection between the sense ‘to follow’ and the prefix has not yet been explained. — <section begin="Folge" /> ,, ‘sequel, result,’ from volge, , ‘retinue, succession, forced service, pursuit,’ &c. sëlbfolga, ‘faction.’ <section end="Folge" /> ',, ‘to put to the rack, torture,’ from late vultern, ‘to put on the rack.’ Akin to ', ‘rack,’ early ModHG only. of obscure origin. It is