leaf (green and flat organ of a plant) · petal (one of the parts of the whorl of a flower) · sheet, piece of paper (piece of paper (usually rectangular) that has not been cut, torn, or folded)
köken: From Middle High German blat, plat, from Old High German blat, from Proto-West Germanic *blad (“leaf”), from Proto-Germanic *bladą (“leaf”); akin to Low German Blatt, Dutch blad, English blade, Danish and Swedish blad. Indo-European cognates include Ancient Greek φύλλον (phúllon), Latin folium.
aile: abblättern, Blättchen, blatten, blättrig, das Blatt wenden, Geblätter, zerblättern
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-der. Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom? Proto-Indo-European *dʰelh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *dʰolh₁yom? Proto-Italic *foljom Classical Latin folium Late Latin folia Old French fueille Middle French feuille French feuille Inherited from Middle French feuille, from Old French fueille, from Late Latin folia, plural of folium in Classical Latin, itself…
aile: brunelle à feuilles hastées, dur de la feuille, effeuillage, effeuiller, être dur de la feuille, feuillage, feuillaison, feuille d'acanthe, feuille de boucher, feuille de brick
köken: From Late Latin folia, from the plural of Latin folium (“leaf”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”).
köken: Possibly either borrowed from Parthian [script needed] (tyg /tēγ/, “blade; sword, lance”); or from Middle Persian [script needed] (tyh /tēx/, “sharp edge, ridge; ray”). Akin to Old Armenian տէգ (tēg), an Iranian borrowing.
köken: From Middle Dutch blat, from Old Dutch *blat, from Proto-West Germanic *blad, from Proto-Germanic *bladą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₃-tó-m, from *bʰleh₃-. Compare German Blatt, English blade.
De bladeren begonnen al te verkleuren en enkele zijn reeds gevallen.