fleah

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Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish fled. Cognate with Irish fleá.

Noun

fleah m (genitive singular fleah, plural fleahnyn)

  1. feast

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fleah leah vleah
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *flauhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *plówkos, a variant of *plúsis (flea). Cognate with Old High German flōh, Old Norse fló.

Pronunciation

Noun

flēah m

  1. flea
Declension
Descendants

Etymology 2

Verb

flēah

  1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative of flēogan