fleogan

Old English

Alternative forms

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

    • IPA(key): /ˈfle͜oː.ɡɑn/, [ˈfle͜oː.ɣɑn]
    • Rhymes: -e͜oː.ɡɑn

    Verb

    flēogan

    1. to fly
      • 996–997, Ælfric of Eynsham, edited and translated by Rev. Walter W. Skeat, M.A., Aelfric's Lives of Saints (Early English Text Society original series 82), volume I, London: N. Trübner & Co., published 1885, page 324:
        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...
    2. (figurative, by extension) to move quickly

    Conjugation

    Conjugation of flēogan (strong, class II)
    infinitive flēogan flēogenne
    indicative mood present tense past tense
    first person singular flēoge flēag, flēah
    second person singular flīeġst fluge
    third person singular flīeġþ flēag, flēah
    plural flēogaþ flugon
    subjunctive present tense past tense
    singular flēoge fluge
    plural flēogen flugen
    imperative
    singular flēog, flēoh
    plural flēogaþ
    participle present past
    flēogende (ġe)flogen

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Middle English: flien, fleȝhenn, flyyn, fleye, flye, fliȝe, flei, fley, flyen, fleen, flen
      • English: fly
      • Scots: fle
      • Yola: vlee

    Scottish Gaelic

    Etymology

    fleog +‎ -an, related to fleoidhte (“flabby, flaccid”).[1]

    Noun

    fleogan m (genitive singular fleogain)

    1. untidy person
    2. flabby person
    3. any flatfish
    4. sole (fish)
    5. fluke
    6. flounder

    Synonyms

    • (flounder): fleog, pacach-cearr, garbag, lèabag, lèabag-ghlas, leathag, leathag fìor-uisge

    References

    1. ^ MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “fleogan”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[1], Stirling, →ISBN
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