flaske

English

Noun

flaske (plural flaskes)

1. Obsolete form of flask.

Anagrams

• Flakes, Lefkas, flakes, fleaks

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flaskə/, [ˈfl̥asɡ̊ə]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse flaska, from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ. Doublet of fiasko and flakon. See English flask, German Flasche, Italian fiasca, and Italian fiasco.

Noun

flaske c (singular definite flasken, plural indefinite flasker)

1. bottle
2. flask

Inflection

Declension of flaske

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	flaske	flasken	flasker	flaskerne
genitive	flaskes	flaskens	flaskers	flaskernes

See also

• flaske on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Verb

flaske (imperative flask, infinitive at flaske, present tense flasker, past tense flaskede, perfect tense er/har flasket)

1. flaske op – bottle-feed, bring up on the bottle

Synonyms

• opflaske

Etymology 2

From German Low German flasken, from Middle Low German vlaschen, of obscure origin:

• possibly from a regional verb built from an older root meaning "flat" (compare Proto-Germanic *flataz): with a verb-forming suffix -sk- or -k-. According to this view, a prehistoric form *flat-ka could have yielded a verb meaning “to make flat, strike flatly,” evidenced by the Swedish dialect flaska slå med flata handen (“hit with the flat hand”). Over time, this may have generalized to “flatten out (problems)” or “go smoothly.”

• or from a verb meaning "split" (compare Proto-West Germanic *flint), implying that the word grew out of a notion of things splitting off neatly.

Verb

flaske (imperative flask, infinitive at flaske, present tense flasker, past tense flaskede, perfect tense har flasket)

1. flaske sig – work out, pan out

Usage notes

Only used in combination with the reflexive pronoun.

Middle English

Noun

flaske

1. alternative form of flask

Norwegian Bokmål

flaske

Etymology

From Old Norse flaska. Doublet of fiasko.

Noun

flaske f or m (definite singular flaska or flasken, indefinite plural flasker, definite plural flaskene)

1. a bottle

Derived terms

• flaskehals
• flaskeskute
• flaskeåpner
• gassflaske
• glassflaske
• plastflaske
• tomflaske
• tåteflaske

References

• “flaske” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²flaskə/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse flaska. Doublet of fiasko. The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

flaske f (definite singular flaska, indefinite plural flasker, definite plural flaskene)

1. a bottle

   Kva er i denne flaska?

   What's in this bottle?

Derived terms

• flaskehals
• flaskeskute
• gassflaske
• plastflaske
• tomflaske
• tåteflaske

Verb

flaske (present tense flaskar, past tense flaska, past participle flaska, passive infinitive flaskast, present participle flaskande, imperative flaske/flask)

1. Used in the phrasal verb flaske opp.

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German flasken.

Verb

flaske (present tense flaskar, past tense flaska, past participle flaska, passive infinitive flaskast, present participle flaskande, imperative flaske/flask)

1. (reflexive, colloquial) to end well

References

• “flaske” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• flakse, flekas, fleksa