Masculine

Flaum

Meaning

fluff; down (thin hair, such as on an adolescent boy’s upper lip)

Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

fluum

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/flaʊ̯m/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German phlūme, from Old High German phlūma, from Proto-West Germanic *plūmu (“down feather”). The modern onset f- instead of pf- is East Central German.

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