The story
- Old English · inherited fromfleaxen“of flax; flaxen”
- Middle English · inherited fromflaxen
- English todayflaxen
From Middle English flaxen, flexon, flexin, from Old English fleaxen (“of flax; flaxen”), equivalent to flax + -en (“made of”). Compare Dutch vlassen.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.