English
fleshless
Fleshless comes from Middle English fleschles.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500fleschles
- Englishearliest quotation 1912fleshless
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500fleschles
- Englishearliest quotation 1912fleshless
Earliest quotation: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […]: “Thrusting in my head between the stems, I found…”
Formed from flesh + -less
Proto-Germanic *flaiski ‘meat, flesh’
Proto-West Germanic *flaiski ‘meat, flesh’
Old English flǣsċ
Middle English flesh
English flesh
Every English word from Middle English fleschles
Today it means
adj Without flesh, lacking flesh; lean.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English fleschles / fleshless