flum
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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Romansch edit
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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
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Nominative | flum | flummet | — | — |
Genitive | flums | flummets | — | — |