vliegen

• IPA^(key): /ˈvli.ɣə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: vlie‧gen
• Rhymes: -iɣən

From Middle Dutch vliegen, from Old Dutch fliegan, from Proto-West Germanic *fleugan, from Proto-Germanic *fleuganą, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-.

vliegen

1. (intransitive) to fly
2. (transitive) to steer an aircraft, to fly
3. (intransitive) to soar, to rush

• Afrikaans: vlieg
• Berbice Creole Dutch: fligi
• Jersey Dutch: vlîxe
• Negerhollands: vlieg, flig

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vliegen

1. Plural form of vlieg

From Old Dutch fliegan, from Proto-Germanic *fleuganą.

vliegen

1. to fly
2. to soar
3. to move quickly

• Regionally, the 2nd and 3rd persons singular retained the older forms vluyges, vluyget (cf. Limburgish doe vluugs, hae vluug).

• Dutch: vliegen
• Limburgish: vlege

• “vlieghen (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “vliegen (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

From Old High German fliogan, from Proto-Germanic *fleuganą.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvliə̯ɡən/, /ˈfl-/

vliegen (third-person singular present vliuget, singular preterite vlouc, plural preterite vlugen, past participle gevlogen)

1. to fly