/flɛʃ/
arrow (projectile or symbol); spire; jib; pointer, needle; fleche
Synonyms: tête
Inherited from Middle French fleche, from Old French fleche, from Vulgar Latin *fleccia, borrowed from Frankish *fliukkijā, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-, from *plew-.
flitch
From Middle French fleche, partly from Old French fliche, from Old Norse flikki; and partly from Picard Old French flec, from Middle Dutch vlecke, vlicke, from Old Dutch *flikki, from Proto-West Germanic *flikkī; both from Proto-Germanic *flikkiją (“piece of meat; side of bacon”). Cognate with Middle Low German vlicke (“side of bacon”), Old English fliċċe (“side of bacon”), whence Modern English flitch.