Flasche

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German flasche, from Old High German flasca (“bottle”), from Proto-West Germanic *flaskā, from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ (“bottle”), from *flehtaną (“to plait, braid”), from the practice of plaiting or wrapping bottles in straw casing. Cognate to English flask. Doublet of Fiasko and Flakon. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈflaʃə/ Rhymes: -aʃə === Noun === Flasche f (genitive Flasche, plural Flaschen, diminutive Fläschchen n or Fläschlein n) bottle; flask; flagon (informal) loser; wimp; someone lacking skill or vigour ==== Declension ==== ==== Hyponyms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== flaschenartig, flaschenförmig ==== Related terms ==== Flaschenbier, Flaschenglas, Flaschenhals, Flaschenöffner, Flaschenpfand, Flaschenpost, Flaschenpreis, Flaschenschiff ==== Descendants ==== → Macedonian: флаша (flaša) → Old Slovak: fľaša, fľäša Pannonian Rusyn: фляша (fljaša) Slovak: fľaša → Polish: flasza ⇒ Polish: flaszka→ Belarusian: пля́шка (pljáška)→ Russian: фля́жка (fljážka)→ Ukrainian: пля́шка (pljáška), фля́жка (fljážka) → Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic script: флаша Latin script: flaša === Further reading === “Flasche” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache “Flasche” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “Flasche” in Duden online Flasche on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Flasche”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891