flinter

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West Frisian

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fî-faldrôn (“flying, folding”), from *fifaldǭ (“butterfly”). If so, related to Faroese firvaldur and German Falter.[1][2]

Probably related to Dutch vlinder and Middle English flindre; also compare Albanian flutur (“butterfly”).

Noun

flinter c (plural flinters, diminutive flinterke)

  1. butterfly

Further reading

  • “flinter”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

References

  1. ^ Dumitrescu, Ioana (2014): The Butterfly Effect on Languages
  2. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “fifaldra”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 140
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