flum

See also: flüm

Friulian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin flūmen.

Noun

flum m (plural flums)

  1. river

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

An early borrowing from Old French flum, from Latin flūmen.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈflum/, /ˈflim/, /ˈfliu̯m/
  • (Northern) IPA(key): /ˈflyːm/

Noun

flum (plural flumes)

  1. A river or watercourse.
  2. (by extension, rare) Any gathering of water.

Descendants
  • English: flume
  • Middle Scots: flum, flume

References

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French flum.

Noun

flum m (plural flums)

  1. river

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

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Latin flūmen.

Noun

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

  1. river
    Synonyms: riviere, flueve
    • c. 1250, Marie de France, Yonec:
      […] il fu el flum d'enfern plungiez!
      He was plunged into the river of Hell!

Descendants

References
  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (flun)

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin flūmen. Perhaps a shortening of flumen.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈflum/

Noun

flum m (plural flumes)

  1. river
    • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 31r:
      Delãt ierico a .ij. milleros en la riƀa del flum iordan es bethania o baptizaua ſant ioħn baptiſta.
      Two thousand paces from Jericho, on the bank of the Jordan River is Bethany, where Saint John the Baptist baptized.

Synonyms

Romansch

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

Etymology

Inherited from Latin flūmen.

Noun

flum m (plural flums)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) river

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /flɵm/

Noun

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

Declension
Declension of flum 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative flum flummet — —
Genitive flums flummets — —

References
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