flakka

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See also: flåkkå

English

Etymology

From colloquial Spanish flaka (“an elegant, charming woman”), derived from Spanish flaca (“skinny, slender”).

Pronunciation

Noun

flakka (uncountable)

  1. (slang) The stimulant drug alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone or alpha-PVP.

Translations

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse flakka, from Proto-Germanic *flakkōn (“to flutter, wander, roam”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ-, which could be related to Ancient Greek πλάζω (plázō, “to turn away from”).

Pronunciation

Verb

flakka (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative flakkaði, supine flakkað)

  1. (intransitive) to wander, to roam
    Synonyms: ráfa, eigra, reika, rangla, sveima

Conjugation

flakka – active voice (germynd)
infinitive nafnháttur að flakka
supine sagnbót flakkað
present participle
lýsingarháttur nútíðar
 flakkandi
indicative
framsöguháttur
 subjunctive
viðtengingarháttur
present
nútíð
 past
þátíð
 present
nútíð
 past
þátíð
singular ég flakka flakkaði flakki flakkaði
þú flakkar flakkaðir flakkir flakkaðir
hann, hún, það flakkar flakkaði flakki flakkaði
plural við flökkum flökkuðum flökkum flökkuðum
þið flakkið flökkuðuð flakkið flökkuðuð
þeir, þær, þau flakka flökkuðu flakki flökkuðu
imperative boðháttur
singular þú flakka (þú), flakkaðu
plural þið flakkið (þið), flakkiði1
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

Derived terms

  • flakk (“wandering, roaming”)
  • flakkari (“wanderer, vagrant”)

References

  • Kroonen, Guus (2013) “flakkon”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 144

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse flakka.

Pronunciation

Verb

flakka (present tense flakkar, past tense flakka, past participle flakka, passive infinitive flakkast, present participle flakkande, imperative flakka/flakk)

  1. to wander about
  2. to flicker (as the light of a candle)
  3. to flit (move rapidly, unpredictably)

References

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