Flo
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fləʊ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /floʊ/
- Homophones: flow, floe
- Rhymes: -əʊ
Proper noun
[edit]Flo
- A diminutive of the female given names Florence or Flora.
Derived terms
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[edit]Alemannic German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German vlō, from Old High German flōh, from Proto-West Germanic *flauh, from Proto-Germanic *flauhaz.
Cognate with German Floh, Dutch vlo, English flea, Icelandic fló.
Noun
[edit]Flo m
References
[edit]- Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co.
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Attested in 1305 as Flo, name of a church village, probably containing the element flo(e) (“small body of water, pool, marsh”), from Old Norse flōi (“marsh, swamp”), from Proto-Germanic *flōduz (“river”).[1]
Proper noun
[edit]Flo n (genitive Flos)
- Flo distrikt (a district of Sweden)
- Flo socken (a village in Sweden)
References
[edit]- Svensk Uppslagsbok andra upplagan 1947–1955: Flo socken
- Harlén, Hans; Harlén Eivy (2003). Sverige från A till Ö: geografisk-historisk uppslagsbok. Stockholm: Kommentus.
- ^ Mats Wahlberg, red (2003). Svenskt ortnamnslexikon. Uppsala: Institutet för språk och folkminnen.
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