flem

flem

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of flō

• flem in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Inherited from Old English flēam, from Proto-West Germanic *flaum, from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz, from Proto-Indo-European *plew-.

• fleem, fleme
• flæm, fleam, vlem (early)

• IPA^(key): /flɛːm/
• Rhymes: -ɛːm

flem

1. A watercourse, channel, or its flow.
2. (poetic) The act of fleeing; flight, escape.

• fleme
• flemen

• English: fleam (dialectal)
• Scots: fleem

• “flēm, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “flēm, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

flem

1. Alternative form of flemen

• flum (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan)
• flüm (Puter, Vallader)

From Latin flūmen, from fluō, fluere (“flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlew- (“to swell, flow”).

flem m (plural flems)

1. (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) river

   Synonym: ragn