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See also: flüm
Friulian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
flum m (plural flums)
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
An early borrowing from Old French flum, from Latin flūmen.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
flum (plural flumes)
- A river or watercourse.
- (by extension, rare) Any gathering of water.
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “flum, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Middle French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French flum.
Noun[edit]
flum m (plural flums)
References[edit]
- flum on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
flum oblique singular, m (oblique plural fluns, nominative singular fluns, nominative plural flum)
- river
- c. 1250, Marie de France, Yonec:
- […] il fu el flum d'enfern plungiez!
- He was plunged into the river of Hell!
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (flun)
Old Spanish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin flūmen. Perhaps a shortening of flumen.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
flum m (plural flumes)
- river
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 31r:
- Delãt ierico a .ij. milleros en la riƀa del flum iordan es bethania o baptizaua ſant ioħn baptiſta.
- Two thousand paces from Jericho, on the bank of the Jordan River is Bethany, where Saint John the Baptist baptized.
Synonyms[edit]
Romansch[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
flum m (plural flums)
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Deverbal from flumma or back-formation from flummig. Attested since 1979.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
flum n
- something intellectually messy or lacking in meaning(ful content); dopiness, haziness
- Finns det stöd för att den där metoden fungerar? För mig känns det mest som flum.
- Is there any evidence that method works? It seems dopey to me.
- Läkaren tyckte den alternativmedicinska metoden var flum
- The doctor thought the method from alternative medicine was woo-woo
- Den där tidningsartikeln är bara flum
- That newspaper article is just empty nonsense
- Det blev en massa flum den kvällen efter de rökt på
- There was a lot of silly dopey messing around that evening after they had smoked up
Declension[edit]
| Declension of flum | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | flum | flummet | — | — |
| Genitive | flums | flummets | — | — |
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- osp:Rivers
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