With the foreign devil's leave the fraid born fraud diddled even death.

James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

plyos

 See here what this little root of a word, plyos, can do:

Pleskatsya = to swash, lap

Pleskat’ = splatter

Plesk = a splash, plash

Vsplesk = a fall into water with a splash

Pleskanie = a popple, a rolling or rippling of water

The Russian is giving us so many variations, but look at our seven English words about water and how they form their own little flow too:

wash, swash, splash, plash, popple, splatter, lap.

Those words sound funny. Sillier than the Russian words.

In Conversation George Saunders & Natasha Randall

The oaks of ald now they lie in peat yet elms leap where askes lay.

James Joyce, Finnegans Wake