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fljúga

fljúga

See also: fljuga

Icelandic

Verb

fljúga (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative flaug, third-person plural past indicative flugu, supine flogið)

  1. (intransitive) to fly

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • fljúga út (to sell like hotcakes)
  • fljúgandi (flying)
  • fljúgandi hálka (slippery ice)
  • fljúgast
  • fljúgast á (to wrestle, to scuffle)
  • floginn (vanished)
  • sveltur sitjandi kráka en fljúgandi fær
  • tíminn flýgur

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fleuganą. Cognate with Old English flēoġan (Modern English fly), Old Frisian fliāga (Saterland Frisian fljooge), Old Saxon fliogan (Low German flegen), Old Dutch fliogan (Dutch vliegen), Old High German fliogan (German fliegen), Gothic 𐌸𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌽 (þliugan). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleuk-. Indo-European cognates include Lithuanian plaũkti.

Verb

fljúga (singular past indicative flaug, plural past indicative flugu, past participle floginn)

  1. to fly

Descendants

  • Norwegian (Bokmål): fly, flyge
  • Norwegian (Nynorsk): fljuga
  • Swedish: flyga