flien

== Maltese == === Etymology === From Arabic فُلَان (fulān). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /flɪːn/ Rhymes: -ɪːn === Noun === flien m (plural flejjen, feminine fliena) (usually in the definite) so-and-so, that bloke; a placeholder for a person whose name one cannot or does not want to mention, as in the phrase; "wieħed flien". === Pronoun === flien (with xi) somebody, anybody Synonym: xi ħadd == Middle English == === Alternative forms === fleȝhenn, flyyn, fleye, flye, fliȝe, flei, fley, flyen, fleen, flen === Etymology === From Old English flēogan, from Proto-West Germanic *fleugan, from Proto-Germanic *fleuganą. This verb is often conflated with fleen (“to flee”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfliː(ə)n/, /ˈflei̯(ə)n/, /ˈfleːn/ === Verb === flien (intransitive) To fly; to travel in the air. (of clouds, stars, etc.) To move in the sky. To travel with alacrity or haste; to rush. To shoot or burst; to move rapidly. To fall or sink; to move rapidly down. (figurative) To proliferate; to be disseminated. (rare, of gamebirds) To attack one's quarry or prey. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== English: fly Scots: fle Yola: vlee ==== References ==== “flīen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.