flum

From Latin flūmen (compare Italian fiume, Romansch flum), from fluō, fluere (“flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlew- (“to swell, flow”).

flum m (plural flums)

1. river

From Old French flum.

flum m (plural flums)

1. river

• flum on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

• flun

From Latin flūmen, from fluō, fluere (“flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlew- (“to swell, flow”).

flum m (oblique plural fluns, nominative singular fluns, nominative plural flum)

1. river

   Synonyms: riviere, flueve

   • circa 1250, Marie de France, Yonec

     […] il fu el flum d'enfern plungiez!

     He was plunged into the river of Hell!

• Middle French: flum
• → English: flume

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (flun)

• flumen

From Latin flūmen. Perhaps a shortening of flumen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflum/

flum m (plural flumes)

1. river
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 31r.

     Delát ierico a. ij. milleros en la rib́a del flum iordan es bethania o baptizaua ſant ioh́n baptiſta.

     Two thousand paces from Jericho, on the bank of the Jordan River is Bethany, where Saint John the Baptist baptized.

• rio

• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) flem, (Puter, Vallader) flüm

From Latin flūmen, from fluō, fluere (“flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlew- (“to swell, flow”).

flum m (plural flums)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) river

Deverbal from flumma or back-formation from flummig. Attested since 1979.

• IPA^(key): /flɵm/

flum n

1. something intellectually messy or lacking in meaning(ful content); dopiness, haziness

   Finns det stöd för att den där metoden fungerar? För mig känns det mest som flum.

   Is there any evidence that method works? It seems dopey to me.

   Läkaren tyckte den alternativmedicinska metoden var flum

   The doctor thought the method from alternative medicine was woo-woo

   Den där tidningsartikeln är bara flum

   That newspaper article is just empty nonsense

   Det blev en massa flum den kvällen efter de rökt på

   There was a lot of silly dopey messing around that evening after they had smoked up

• flumma
• flummig

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