Fleck

Fleck

1. A surname.

From Middle High German vlëc, from Old High German flec, flek, from Proto-West Germanic *flekkō, from Proto-Germanic *flekka- (“spot, mark”). Cognate with Dutch vlek, English fleck.

• IPA^(key): /flɛk/

• Audio:

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Fleck m (strong or mixed, genitive Flecks, plural Flecke or Flecken, diminutive Fleckchen n)

1. stain, spot, blot, fleck, smear
2. corner, spot (part or region)
3. (now archaic, regional) shred, flap, flake, fleck
4. tripe

• Flecken is originally the plural of another singular (der) Flecken, but it is now commonly used as a plural of Fleck and is even predominant at least in some regions.

• Leberfleck
• Pigmentfleck
• Sonnenfleck

• → Czech: flek (“spot”)
• → Polish: flak (“entrail”)
  • → Russian: фля́ки (fljáki, “tripe soup”)
  • → Carpathian Rusyn: флякы (fljakŷ, “tripe soup”)
  • → Ukrainian: фля́ки (fljáky, “tripe soup”), хля́ки (xljáky, “tripe soup”), ґля́ґи (“tripe soup”)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: филѐки (“tripe soup”)
  • Latin script: filèki (“tripe soup”)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: фле̏ка (“spot”)
  • Latin script: flȅka (“spot”)
• → Slovak: fĺak (“spot”)
• → Slovene: fileki (“tripe soup”)

Fleck m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Flecks or (with an article) Fleck, feminine genitive Fleck, plural Flecks)

1. a surname

• “Fleck” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Fleck” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• “Fleck” in Duden online

From Middle High German vlec, from Old High German flec, from Proto-West Germanic *flekkō, from Proto-Germanic *flekka-. Cognate with German Fleck, Dutch vlek, English fleck, Swedish fläck.

• IPA^(key): /flæk/
• Rhymes: -æk

Fleck m (plural Flecken)

1. spot, stain
2. patch, spot, area