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Noun [English]

IPA: /fliːm/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fleam.wav Forms: fleams [plural], phleam [alternative]
Rhymes: -iːm Etymology: From Middle English fleme, fleom, from Old French flieme, flemie (“open vein”), probably via a Proto-Germanic source (compare Old Saxon flēma, Old High German fliotuma, fliodema, Old English flȳtme (“fleam, lancet”)), borrowed from Vulgar Latin fletoma, *fletomus, from Late Latin flebotomus, phlebotomus, from Ancient Greek φλεβοτόμον (phlebotómon). Compare French flamme, Dutch vlijm, German Fliete, Danish flitte (“fleam”). Doublet of phlebotome. Etymology templates: {{etymid|en|lancet}}, {{inh|en|enm|fleme|id=lancet}} Middle English fleme, {{der|en|fro|flieme}} Old French flieme, {{der|en|gem-pro|-}} Proto-Germanic, {{cog|osx|flēma}} Old Saxon flēma, {{cog|goh|fliotuma}} Old High German fliotuma, {{cog|ang|flȳtme||fleam, lancet}} Old English flȳtme (“fleam, lancet”), {{der|en|VL.|fletoma}} Vulgar Latin fletoma, {{der|en|LL.|flebotomus}} Late Latin flebotomus, {{der|en|grc|φλεβοτόμον}} Ancient Greek φλεβοτόμον (phlebotómon), {{cog|fr|flamme}} French flamme, {{cog|nl|vlijm}} Dutch vlijm, {{cog|de|Fliete}} German Fliete, {{cog|da|flitte||fleam}} Danish flitte (“fleam”), {{doublet|en|phlebotome}} Doublet of phlebotome Head templates: {{en-noun}} fleam (plural fleams)
  1. A sharp instrument used to open a vein, to lance gums, or the like. Hypernyms (sharp instrument): lancet Derived forms: fleam saw, fleam tooth, fleamy Translations (medical instrument): ланцет (lancet) [masculine] (Bulgarian), φλεβοτόμος (flevotómos) [masculine] (Greek), نیشتر (nişter, neşter) (Ottoman Turkish), مفصد (mifsad) (Ottoman Turkish)
    Sense id: en-fleam-en-noun-bS9RwfxA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 55 22 23 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 61 18 21 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 61 20 19
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [English]

IPA: /fliːm/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fleam.wav Forms: fleams [plural], fleem [alternative]
Rhymes: -iːm Etymology: From Middle English fleem, flem (“the rushing of water; current”), probably from Old English flēam (“fleeing; flight; rush”), from Proto-Germanic *flaumaz (“stream; current; flood”), from Proto-Indo-European *plew- (“to fly; flow; run”). Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk flaum (“flood”). Etymology templates: {{etymid|en|watercourse}}, {{inh|en|enm|fleem}} Middle English fleem, {{inh|en|ang|flēam||fleeing; flight; rush}} Old English flēam (“fleeing; flight; rush”), {{inh|en|gem-pro|*flaumaz||stream; current; flood}} Proto-Germanic *flaumaz (“stream; current; flood”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*plew-||to fly; flow; run}} Proto-Indo-European *plew- (“to fly; flow; run”), {{cog|nn|flaum||flood}} Norwegian Nynorsk flaum (“flood”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} fleam (plural fleams)
  1. (UK, dialectal, Northern England) The watercourse or runoff from a mill; millstream Tags: Northern-England, UK, dialectal
    Sense id: en-fleam-en-noun-xfUNQ~sh Categories (other): British English, Northern England English
  2. (UK, dialectal, Northern England) A large trench or gully cut into a meadow in order to drain it Tags: Northern-England, UK, dialectal
    Sense id: en-fleam-en-noun-bn2KFCdx Categories (other): British English, Northern England English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: fleme [verb], Flemish
Etymology number: 2

Verb [Latin]

Head templates: {{head|la|verb form}} fleam
  1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of fleō Tags: active, first-person, form-of, present, singular, subjunctive Form of: fleō
    Sense id: en-fleam-la-verb-snBRDR6E Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries

Noun [Middle English]

Head templates: {{head|enm|noun}} fleam
  1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of flem Tags: Early-Middle-English, alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: flem

Noun [Old English]

IPA: /flæ͜ɑːm/
Etymology: From Proto-Germanic *flaumaz. Etymology templates: {{inh|ang|gem-pro|*flaumaz}} Proto-Germanic *flaumaz Head templates: {{head|ang|nouns|||||g=m|g2=|g3=|head=flēam|head2=|sort=}} flēam m, {{ang-noun|m|head=flēam}} flēam m Inflection templates: {{ang-decl-noun-a-m|flēam}}, {{ang-decl-noun|flēam|flēamas|flēam|flēamas|flēames|flēama|flēame|flēamum|num=|title=|type=strong a-stem}} Forms: flēam [canonical, masculine], no-table-tags [table-tags], flēam [nominative, singular], flēamas [nominative, plural], flēam [accusative, singular], flēamas [accusative, plural], flēames [genitive, singular], flēama [genitive, plural], flēame [dative, singular], flēamum [dative, plural]
  1. escape, flight Derived forms: flīeman, tōflēam
    Sense id: en-fleam-ang-noun-smQEFvWC Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-02 using wiktextract (b81b832 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.