flen

From Old English flēon, from Proto-West Germanic *fleuhan, from Proto-Germanic *fleuhaną.

• fleon

• IPA^(key): /fleːn/, /fløːn/

flen

1. to flee

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• English: flee
• Scots: flee

• “flẹ̄n, v.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

flen

1. plural of fle

Compare Norwegian old Spydeberg dialect Fleen (“tumor on skin”), probably not etymologically related to Norwegian Nynorsk fleinsopp or fleinskalla, neither to Old Norse fleinn.

flen c

1. (northern Sweden, usually in the singular) a cyst, a gout, a tumor, a skin swelling
2. (Southern, usually in the singular) heartburn, pyrosis
3. (usually in the singular) a kind of cow udder disease

• flengräs
• flenört
• rännflen

• IPA^(key): [flen]

flen (genitive flena, plural flens)

1. (male or female) friend
   • 1932, Arie de Jong, Leerboek der Wereldtaal, page 13:

     Fat obik ed olikan binoms flens.

     My father and yours are friends.

• neflen (“enemy”)

• hiflen (“male friend, he-friend”)
• jiflen (“female friend, she-friend”)