Translation
Fleming, person from Flanders
Word origin
From the regional name Flandrio, Flanders, a Germanic place name of long standing whose own origin is disputed; the flooded-land reading is the usual guess rather than a settled fact.
- Origin
- Germanic place name
- Root
- Flandrio
- English cognates
- Fleming, Flemish
Examples
Belgio.
Her husband is a Fleming from the north of Belgium.
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The Flemings have their own language and their own flag.
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At the congress I met a young Fleming.
A is a person, not a place and not a language. The region is Flandrio, the adjective is flandra, and the language the flandroj speak is nederlanda, the same Dutch spoken north of the border.
Esperanto's people-first system is doing the work here, and it is worth reading in full: the root names the human being, and the country, the adjective and the language are all built off it. Landoj kaj popoloj sets out the whole pattern, including the awkward cases where a country came first.
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