pleus-

    pleus-

    English meaning: to pluck; plucked hair, feathers, fell

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “ausrupfen; gerupfte Wollflocken, Federn or Haare, Vlies, Zotten”

    Material: Lat. plūma “Flaumfeder, Flaum” (*plusmü); M.L.G. vlūs, vlūsch ‘schaffell, Vlies”, nnd. vlūs(e), vlūsch “ tussock hair, Bũschel Wolle”, M.H.G. vlius (*flūsi-) “Vlies”, Ger. Flaus, Flausch; M.H.G. vlies, Ger. Vlies; O.E. flēos, flīes n. ds., with gramm. variation Nor. flūra “zottiges hair”; O.Ice. flosa ‘splinter, offal”, Nor. dial. flos, flus(k), flustr ds. and “ dandruff, scale auf dem Kopfe”, as Ltv. plauskas and plaukstes “ dandruff “, Ltv. plūsni “in Winde flatternde birch bark “, Lith. pliū́ šinti “rub, wear out”, plūšà “Bastfasern” (in addition рlìūše ̃ “reed”) etc.; Lith. plùskos pl. “Haarzotten, hair”, Ltv. pluskas “Zotten, rag”, ablaut. plauskas f. pl. ‘schelfer”; Lith. pláuzdinis “(Feder)bett, Deckbett”, O.Pruss. (with g-insertion) plauxdine “feather-bed”.

    References: WP. II 96 f., Trautmann 227.