flina

== Swedish == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *flinōną (“to bare (one's teeth), smile”), from a Proto-Indo-European *pley- (“bare, bald, flat”). Cognate with Elfdalian flinå (“smile”); outside of Germanic, compare Lithuanian pli̇̀kas (“bald”), Latvian pliks (“bare, bald”). The root may be further connected to Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to cleave, to split off, to cast off”) (that smiling is a "splitting" of one's mouth), see Proto-Germanic *splītaną (“to split”) for more on the root. === Verb === flina (present flinar, preterite flinade, supine flinat, imperative flina) to grin (smile in a cheeky, mocking, silly, stupid, or similar way, or "in a less beautiful way," as Svensk ordbok puts it) to smile (when sounding better) (now uncommon) to laugh (in a similar manner) ==== Usage notes ==== Not necessarily with bared teeth. Basically covers any kind of grinning that might be described as "colloquial" (or "mocking" or the like, if not a happy smile). ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== hånflina ==== Related terms ==== flin ==== See also ==== dra på smilbanden le smila småle === References === “flina”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) flina in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922) === Anagrams === final