köken: Borrowed from Italian flemma, from Latin phlegma (“phlegm”), one of the four bodily humours, thought to cause a sluggish and unemotional nature. First attested in the late 1700s. Doublet of flegme.
aile: flémingite, flemmard, flemmasser, flemmer, lofeu, tirer sa flemme
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lěnostь, based on *lěnъ (“lazy”); compare Old East Slavic лѣнꙑи (lěnyi), Belarusian ляны́ (ljaný), Bulgarian лен (len), Serbo-Croatian ли̏jен, Czech líný, etc. By surface analysis, *лено́й (*lenój, “lazy”) + -ость (-ostʹ), based on a no-longer existing adjectival form of лень (lenʹ, “laziness”), replaced in modern Russian with лени́вый (lenívyj) (but dialectal лено́й…
köken: Etymology tree Old Polish lenistwo, leniwstwo Polish lenistwo Inherited from Old Polish lenistwo, leniwstwo. By surface analysis, leniwy + -stwo.
köken: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic лѣнь (lěnĭ), from Proto-Slavic *lěnь. Compare Serbo-Croatian lijénōst, Russian лень (lenʹ), Polish leń. Cf also Aromanian leani.