Danish

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German vlucht, from Proto-West Germanic *fluhti (flight), cognate with English flight, German Flucht, Dutch vlucht. A conflation of two different nouns derived from two different verbs, *fleuhaną (to flee) and *fleuganą (to fly).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /flokt/, [ˈflɔɡ̊d̥]

Noun

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flugt c (singular definite flugten, plural indefinite flugter)

  1. escape, flight (to get away from something)
  2. flight (of birds)

Declension

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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flugt f (definite singular flugti, indefinite plural flugter, definite plural flugterne or flugtene)

  1. (pre-1917) alternative form of flukt