Infinitive
fliss
Participles
| Present | flissin |
| Past | flisst |
Present
flisses
Past
flisst
Etymology
Borrowed from Norwegian flis (“splinter”), from Old Norse flís, from Proto-Germanic *flīsō (“splinter”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split”). Cognate with Icelandic flís (“splinter; sliver; chip”), Norwegian flis (“a splinter”), Swedish flisa (“splinter; sliver; flake”), Danish flise (“splinter; tile”), German Fliese (“tile; flag”), Norwegian flysja (“to slice; split; peel off”). See: Swedish '
flisa', Danish '
flise'.
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