English
flockmeal
Flockmeal comes from Middle English flockmel ‘flockmeal, in a flock’, and goes back to Old English flocmǣlum.
- Old Englishc. 450–1150flocmǣlum‘in flocks’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500flockmel‘flockmeal, in a flock’
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1519flockmeal
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Old Englishc. 450–1150flocmǣlum‘in flocks’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500flockmel‘flockmeal, in a flock’
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1519flockmeal
Earliest quotation: c. 1519, Thomas More: “And some Lords, Knights, and Gentlemen either for favour…”
Formed from flock + -meal
Proto-Germanic *flukkaz ‘crowd, troop’
Proto-West Germanic *flokk
Old English flocc ‘flock, company, troop’
Middle English flok
English flock
Every English word from Old English flocmǣlum
Today it means
adv In a flock; in flocks; in a herd.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old English flocmǣlum / flockmeal