fles

From Middle Dutch flassche, flessche, from Old Dutch *flaska, from Proto-West Germanic *flaskā, from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ.

• IPA^(key): /flɛs/

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• Hyphenation: fles
• Rhymes: -ɛs

fles f (plural flessen, diminutive flesje n)

1. bottle

• bottel (dated)
• bouteille (archaic)

• bierfles
• drinkfles
• flesopener
• flessenrek
• gasfles
• knijpfles
• Leidse fles
• waterfles
• wijnfles

• Negerhollands: flessis
• → Loup A: plas
• → Mahican: pnàsch
• → Papiamentu: flèshi, fleishi, fleshi, fleisji

From Old Norse fles, from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *plē- (“to cut off, split off”), probably related to *pleh₂- (“flat”) and thus English flake.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /fleːs/

fles f (genitive singular flesjar, plural flesjar)

1. skerry

flēs

1. second-person singular present active indicative of fleō

fles

1. Alternative form of flees

From Old Norse fles.

• IPA^(key): /fleːs/

fles f (definite singular flesa, indefinite plural fleser, definite plural flesene)

1. a small (and bare) rock reef just above the surface of the water

• “fles” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *flasjō.

fles f (genitive flesjar, plural flesjar)

1. a small (and bare) rock reef just above the surface of the water

• Faroese: fles
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fles

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “fles”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive