this actually ALSO made it into English: p luvial. There’s the branch around flux and fluid (which also exists in English) and there are the words for t o rain – pleuvoir in French, piovere in Italian – and you know what. Oh, and of course also the Romance languages have their bunch of pleu-words. On the German side, we have essentially the same words, just in German: D ie Flotte (fleet), die Flut (flood), das Floß (the raft) and die Flosse (the fin of a fish) and of course also fliegen (fly), fliehen(flee), Flug (flight) and Flucht (flight, escape). Sounds crazy, but just think of an eagle in the air…. For example to flee, which ties in with the speed of running water, I guess. These ones are quite obvious but there are more. In English, we have flow, float, fleet or f lood. At the heart is the uber ancient Indo European root *pleu.The core inspiration was running water and the root has evolved into many words that are somehow related to that idea.
The family of Fluss on the other hand is just crazy. Well, except the word rival, which comes from the idea that someone uses the same stream as you to water their field. River comes from some Latin word that was more about the riverbank but there aren’t any interesting connections to anything.
The word Fluss is obviously not related to river. A stream of useful words and in that stream many surprising connections dwell. And who wants to read about Fluss? I mean, except a Flussologist (riverologist in English, in my fantasy version of it anyway).īut Flussis not just a river, it’s a stream. Fluss means river most of you know that, I think.
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