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Etymology

From Middle English flemmysshe, from Old English flēmisc, from Old Frisian flāmisk, derived from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz (“flowing, current water”) and *-iskaz. Equivalent to English fleam +‎ -ish. More at Flanders.

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Flemish (comparative more Flemish, superlative most Flemish)

  1. Of or relating to Flanders, either as the historical county of Flanders (the current provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders in Belgium, Zeelandic Flanders in the Netherlands and French Flanders); or as the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium.
    • 2008 May 14, Steven Erlanger, “Seams of Belgium’s Quilt Threaten to Burst”, in The New York Times‎:
      But Wallonian legislators are blocking the changes, fearing that their power is eroding, that the Flemish are doing some legal ethnic cleansing and that a divided Belgium will end the subsidies that flow south from richer Flanders.
    • 2010, Jan Piet Puype, Harm Stevens, Arms and Armour of Knights and Landsknechts in the Netherlands Army Museum, Eburon Uitgeverij B.V., →ISBN, page 245:
      […] 1302, in which Flemish farmers and civilians armed with goedendags stand in battle formation. The goedendags resemble long clubs, but they have a much wider beating ring around the top and it is possible that a daring combatant  […]
  2. Of or relating to the Belgian standard variety of the Dutch language.
  3. Of or relating to West Flemish, East Flemish and/or French Flemish dialects of Dutch.

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Flemish

  1. Standard Dutch as it is spoken in Flanders.
  2. West Flemish, East Flemish and/or French Flemish dialects of Dutch.

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