Fluss

• Fluß (pre-1996 orthography)

From Middle High German vluz, from Old High German fluz, from Proto-West Germanic *fluti, from Proto-Germanic *flutiz, ultimately from the same root of fließen (“to flow”).

Not cognate with Latin fluvius, which derives instead from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlewH-.

• IPA^(key): /flʊs/

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• Rhymes: -ʊs

Fluss m (strong, genitive Flusses, plural Flüsse, diminutive Flüsschen n or Flüsslein n)

1. river
2. flow

• Old High German: fluz
• → German: Fluss
• → Vilamovian: fłūs

• “Fluss” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Fluss” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Fluss” in Duden online
• “Fluss” in OpenThesaurus.de
• Fluss on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

From Middle High German vluz, from Old High German fluz, from Proto-West Germanic *flōdu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflus/
• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: Fluss

Fluss m (plural Fliss)

1. river

   Synonym: Rio

   De greesest Fluss fun de Äerd is de Amazonas.

   The largest river of the earth is the Amazon.

2. flow

• Piter Kehoma Boll (2021), “Fluss”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 56

From German Fluss (“river”).

Fluss m (plural Flusse)

1. river
2. flow