flinter

🦋

Meaning

butterfly

Frequency

Unknown. Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fî-faldrôn (“flying, folding”), from *fifaldǭ (“butterfly”). If so, related to Faroese firvaldur and German Falter. Probably related to Dutch vlinder and Middle English flindre; also compare Albanian flutur (“butterfly”).

Cognate with German

Falter

Cognate with Dutch

vlinder

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Der wie ris in
🅰️

moaie flinter
🦋

, dy flinter
🦋

wie sa blau

as de loft .

There was once a beautiful butterfly, that butterfly was as blue as the sky.

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