flem

flem

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of flō

• flem in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Inherited from Old English flēam, from Proto-West Germanic *flaum, from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz, from Proto-Indo-European *plew-.

• fleem, fleme
• flæm, fleam, vlem (Early Middle English)

• IPA^(key): /flɛːm/
• Rhymes: -ɛːm

flem

1. A watercourse, channel, or its flow.
2. (poetic) The act of fleeing; flight, escape.

• fleme
• flemen

• English: fleam (dialectal)
• Scots: fleem

• “flēm, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “flēm, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

flem

1. Alternative form of flemen

flem m (plural flems) (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

1. Alternative form of flum (“river”)