flea – English noun declension

English noun forms of flea

Noun: flea
Singularflea
Pluralfleas

Sample Sentences

  • The nation of beggars on horseback which first colonized California has left behind it many traditions unworthy of conservation, and multitudinous fleas not at all traditional, but even less keepworthy […] [1871, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, The Heart of the Continent, page 414:]

Nouns inflected like flea

flea,

Etymology

1. From Middle English fle, from Old English flēah, flēa, from Proto-West Germanic *flauh, from Proto-Germanic *flauhaz (compare West Frisian flie, Low German Flo, Flö, Dutch vlo, German Floh, Icelandic fló), from pre-Germanic *plóukos, *plówkos, from or akin to Proto-Indo-European *plus- (compare Latin pulex, Sanskrit प्लुषि (plúṣi)).
2. The archaic plural fleen is from Middle English fleen, flen, from Old English flēan (“fleas”). See: Middle English Nouns 'fle', Dutch Nouns 'vlo', German Nouns 'Floh', Icelandic Nouns 'fló', Latin Nouns 'pulex', Old English Nouns 'flēan'.

Verbs referencing "flea"

Latin Nouns pulex, German Nouns Floh, Ancient Greek Nouns ψύλλα.