See also: flüm

Friulian edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin flūmen.

Noun edit

flum m (plural flums)

  1. river

Middle English edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

An early borrowing from Old French flum, from Latin flūmen.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈflum/, /ˈflim/, /ˈfliu̯m/
  • (Northern) IPA(key): /ˈflyːm/

Noun edit

flum (plural flumes)

  1. A river or watercourse.
  2. (by extension, rare) Any gathering of water.

Descendants edit

  • English: flume
  • Middle Scots: flum, flume

References edit

Middle French edit

Etymology edit

From Old French flum.

Noun edit

flum m (plural flums)

  1. river

References edit

  • flum on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Old French edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin flūmen.

Noun edit

flum oblique singularm (oblique plural fluns, nominative singular fluns, nominative plural flum)

  1. river
    Synonyms: riviere, flueve

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)

  1. 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

  • (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) flem, (Puter, Vallader) flüm

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin flūmen.

Noun edit

flum m (plural flums)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) river

Swedish edit

Etymology edit

Deverbal from flumma or back-formation from flummig. Attested since 1979.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

flum n

  1. 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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