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Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *fleugan, from Proto-Germanic *fleuganą, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-.
Cognate with Old Frisian fliāga (West Frisian fleane), Old Saxon fliogan (Low German flegen), Old Dutch fliogan (Dutch vliegen), Old High German fliogan (German fliegen), Old Norse fljúga (Swedish flyga). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Lithuanian plaũkti (“swim”).
Pronunciation
Verb
flēogan
- to fly
- late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints
Efne þā on middere nihte wearþ myċel eorþstyrung, and godes enċġel flēah fǣrlīċe tō þām cwearterne...- Behold! then, at midnight, there was a great earthquake, and the angel of god flew suddenly to the prison...
- (figurative, by extension) to move quickly
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
- Middle English: flien, fleȝhenn, flyyn, fleye, flye, fliȝe, flei, fley, flyen, fleen, flen
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
fleog + -an, related to fleoidhte (“flabby, flaccid”).[1]
Noun
fleogan m (genitive singular fleogain)
- untidy person
- flabby person
- any flatfish
- sole (fish)
- fluke
- flounder
Synonyms
References
- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “fleogan”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN