Flasche
See also: Fläsche
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.
Pronunciation
Noun
Flasche f (genitive Flasche, plural Flaschen, diminutive Fläschchen n or Fläschlein n)
- bottle; flask; flagon
- Wir hätten gern eine Flasche von dem Chardonnay und eine Flasche stilles Wasser dazu.
- We’d like a bottle of your chardonnay and a bottle of still water with it.
- (informal) loser; wimp; someone lacking skill or vigour
Declension
Declension of Flasche [feminine]
Derived terms
Descendants
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
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