fly.
airplane, aeroplane
Meaning & usage
airplane, aeroplane
Where this word comes from
An abbreviation of flyvemaskine, after Norwegian fly and Swedish flyg.
to flee
to shun
Where this word comes from
From Old Norse flýja (“to flee”), from Proto-Germanic *fleuhaną, cognate with English flee, German fliehen, Dutch vlieden.
to hand, give
Where this word comes from
From Middle Low German vlī(g)en (“to stack, sort out”), cognate with Dutch vlijen (“to place”), from Proto-Germanic *flīhan, of unknown ultimate origin; possibly related to the root of *flaihijan (“to be sly, to flatter”), though the semantic gap is wide.
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