flum

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See also: flüm

Friulian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin flūmen.

Noun

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flum m (plural flums)

  1. river

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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flum (plural flumes)

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

Descendants

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  • English: flume
  • Middle Scots: flum, flume

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Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French flum.

Noun

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flum m (plural flums)

  1. river

References

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

Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin flūmen.

Noun

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

  1. river
    Synonyms: riviere, flueve

Descendants

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References

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  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (flun)

Old Spanish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin flūmen. Perhaps a shortening of flumen.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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.

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Romansch

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Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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Inherited from Latin flūmen.

Noun

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flum m (plural flums)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) river

Swedish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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

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