Etymology

flenser

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Today it means: One who flenses (cuts blubber from a whale carcass) Full definition →

Danish flense ← Dutch vlensen ← Proto-Germanic *flintaz-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*splind-“to split, cleave”
  2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*flintaz-
  3. Dutch · derived fromvlensen
  4. Danish · derived fromflense
  5. English todayflenser

From Danish flense or Dutch vlensen, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *flintaz-, from Proto-Indo-European *splind- (“to split, cleave”), from *(s)plei- (“to split”)..

Words from the same roots

Danishflense all →

flense

Proto-Indo-European*splind- all →

flinder

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