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*FLAD indeed means beauty, cleanlyness. In High German there was another sound shift, so the outcome of common Germanic *flad is FLAT in High German (and Kuhfladen has nothing to do with it, it is named because of its flattened form, there also Fladenbrot that is eatable).

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Here you can read the details: http://woerterbuchnetz.de/DWB/?sigle=DWB&mode=Vernetzung&lemid=GF05296#XGF05296 and http://woerterbuchnetz.de/DWB/?sigle=DWB&mode=Vernetzung&lemid=GF05294#XGF05294 and http://woerterbuchnetz.de/DWB/?sigle=DWB&mode=Vernetzung&lemid=GF05049#XGF05049