flemen

== Dutch == === Pronunciation === === Etymology 1 === Possibly related to Middle Dutch fleeuwen (“to coax, cajole”), which is likely akin to the synonym vleien. For the alternation between -w- and -m- between fleeuwen and flemen, the cases of schremen and schreeuwen (both meaning "to scream") have been adduced as comparanda, but there does not seem to be a clear explanation that would account for this seemingly irregular alternation. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. ==== Verb ==== flemen (intransitive) to sweet-talk, wheedle, cajole Synonym: vleien ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 2 === From German flehmen. ==== Verb ==== flemen (intransitive, zoology) to flehm ===== Conjugation ===== === Further reading === flemen on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “flemen”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute == Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to blow”), with a noun-forming suffix -men. Cognate with Latin flō (“to blow”), English blow, Old Armenian բեղուն (bełun, “fertile”), Albanian plas (“to blow, explode”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfɫeː.mɛn] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈflɛː.men] === Noun === flēmen n (genitive flēminis); third declension A bloody swelling about the ankles ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem). === References === “flemina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “flemen”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. == Middle English == === Alternative forms === flem, fleme flæmen, fleome (Early Middle English) vleme (Kent) === Etymology === From Old English flīeman (“to put to flight, drive away, banish”), from flēam (“flight, flow”) as if Proto-West Germanic *flaumijan; by surface analysis, fleme (“exile”) +‎ -en (infinitival suffix). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfleːmən/ IPA(key): /ˈflɛːmən/ (possibly, by analogy with fleme) === Verb === flemen (third-person singular simple present flemeth, present participle flemende, flemynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle flemed) To drive away or banish; to force out. To (legally or officially) exile from a jurisdiction. To remove or expel (a spirit or emotion) (rare) To denounce or damn; to speak against. (rare) To be expelled or forced out. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== English: fleme (obsolete) Scots: fleem, fleme (obsolete) ==== References ==== “flẹ̄men, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.