köken: Possibly through Middle Dutch vlau (“limp, weak”) from Old French flou; see further at French flou. If so, a doublet of Dutch flou. Compare with the Walloon flåwe (weak).
Hij haalt soms de flauwste grappen uit! - He pulls the lamest pranks sometimes!
köken: From Proto-Finnic *halëda (compare Estonian hale, Ingrian haalia), derived from *haljas (whence haljas) by replacing the apparent suffix *-(j)as with *-ëda (-ea). The sense “tepid, lukewarm” developed from the original sense “faded, pale” in Finnish.
tepid, uninterested, languid (exhibiting little passion or eagerness) · lukewarm
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köken: From the otherwise unattested *lagymad (“to become warmer, softer”) + -atag (adjective-forming suffix) also found in avatag, hervatag, korhatag. Ultimately, from lágy (“soft”).
köken: From Old Danish ljunken, from Old Norse *ljumka, *lumka (“to warm”), from Proto-Germanic *hlēwanōną (“to make warm”), *hleumaz, *hlūmaz (“warm”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱal(w)e-, *ḱel(w)e-, *k(')lēw- (“warm, hot”). Cognate with Old Swedish lionkin (“lukewarm”), Old Swedish liumber (“warm, mild, tepid”), Swedish dialectal lumma (“to be hot”), Old Saxon halōian (“to burn”). See lukewarm.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tep- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *t(e)péh₁yeti Proto-Italic *tepēō Latin tepeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin tepidus Old Catalan tebi Catalan tebi Inherited from Old Catalan tebi, from Latin tepidus. Cognate with French tiède, Occitan tèbi, and…
From Middle High German lā (inflected lāwe), from Old High German lāo, from Proto-West Germanic *hlāu, from Proto-Germanic *hlēwaz. Cognate with Dutch lauw. Also related to English lukewarm.