"fleon" meaning in Old English

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Verb

IPA: /fle͜oːn/
Rhymes: -e͜oːn Etymology: From Proto-West Germanic *fleuhan, from Proto-Germanic *fleuhaną. Cognate with Old Frisian fliā, Old Saxon fliohan, Old Dutch flian, Old High German fliohan, Old Norse flýja, Gothic 𐌸𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌷𐌰𐌽 (þliuhan). Etymology templates: {{inh|ang|gmw-pro|*fleuhan}} Proto-West Germanic *fleuhan, {{inh|ang|gem-pro|*fleuhaną}} Proto-Germanic *fleuhaną, {{cog|ofs|fliā}} Old Frisian fliā, {{cog|osx|fliohan}} Old Saxon fliohan, {{cog|odt|flian}} Old Dutch flian, {{cog|goh|fliohan}} Old High German fliohan, {{cog|non|flýja}} Old Norse flýja, {{cog|got|𐌸𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌷𐌰𐌽}} Gothic 𐌸𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌷𐌰𐌽 (þliuhan) Head templates: {{ang-verb|flēon}} flēon Inflection templates: {{ang-conj|flēon<s2>}} Forms: flēon [canonical], strong [table-tags], flēon [infinitive], flēonne [infinitive], flēo [first-person, present, singular], flēah [first-person, past, singular], flīehst [present, second-person, singular], fluge [past, second-person, singular], flīehþ [present, singular, third-person], flēah [past, singular, third-person], flēoþ [plural, present], flugon [past, plural], flēo [present, singular], fluge [past, singular], flēon [plural, present], flugen [past, plural], flēoh [imperative, past, present, singular], flēoþ [imperative, past, plural, present], flēonde [imperative, present], flogen [imperative, past], ġeflogen [imperative, past]
  1. to flee
    Sense id: en-fleon-ang-verb-lye1Ruql
  2. to run away, run from, escape
    Sense id: en-fleon-ang-verb-1llKnNjl Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 19 63 19 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 24 51 24 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 17 67 17
  3. to avoid
    Sense id: en-fleon-ang-verb-pI59IyuX
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: ætflēon, beflēon, forflēon, ōþflēon
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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "ætflēon"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "beflēon"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "forflēon"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "ōþflēon"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "English",
          "lang_code": "en",
          "word": "flee"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Scots",
          "lang_code": "sco",
          "word": "flee"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "lang_code": "enm",
      "word": "flen"
    },
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          "lang_code": "en",
          "word": "flee"
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          "word": "flee"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Middle English",
      "lang_code": "enm",
      "word": "fleon"
    }
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        "1": "ang",
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        "3": "*fleuhan"
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      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *fleuhan",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*fleuhaną"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *fleuhaną",
      "name": "inh"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ofs",
        "2": "fliā"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Frisian fliā",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "osx",
        "2": "fliohan"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Saxon fliohan",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "odt",
        "2": "flian"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Dutch flian",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "fliohan"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German fliohan",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "flýja"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse flýja",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "got",
        "2": "𐌸𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌷𐌰𐌽"
      },
      "expansion": "Gothic 𐌸𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌷𐌰𐌽 (þliuhan)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *fleuhan, from Proto-Germanic *fleuhaną. Cognate with Old Frisian fliā, Old Saxon fliohan, Old Dutch flian, Old High German fliohan, Old Norse flýja, Gothic 𐌸𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌷𐌰𐌽 (þliuhan).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "flēon",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strong",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "II",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flēon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flēonne",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flēo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flēah",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flīehst",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fluge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flīehþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flēah",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flēoþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flugon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flēo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fluge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flēon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flugen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flēoh",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flēoþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flēonde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flogen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ġeflogen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "flēon"
      },
      "expansion": "flēon",
      "name": "ang-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "flēon<s2>"
      },
      "name": "ang-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "...but do Thou receive me now, Thine own servant, for I am fleeing from them.",
          "text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies\n...ac onfōh mē nū þīnne āgene þēawa, for ic eom flēonde fram hym.",
          "translation": "...but do Thou receive me now, Thine own servant, for I am fleeing from them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "In that land there is an abundance of pepper. In their eagerness, the snakes keep the pepper. To take the pepper, people light the place on fire, so that the snakes flee down into the earth; because of that, the pepper is black. From Babylon to the city of Persia where the pepper grows is eight hundred of the lesser miles known as stadia.",
          "text": "Wonders of the East\nOn þām londum byð piperes genihtsumnys. Þone pipor þā nǣddran healdað on hyra ġeornfulnysse. Ðone pipor mon swā nimeð þæt mon þā stōwe mid fȳre onǣleð ⁊ ðonne ðā nǣddran of dūne on eorðan þæt hī flēoð; forðan sē pipor byð sweart. Fram Babilōnia ōð Persiam þā burh ðǣr sē pipor wēaxeð is þǣs lǣssan milgetǣles þe stadia hātte eahta hund mīla.",
          "translation": "In that land there is an abundance of pepper. In their eagerness, the snakes keep the pepper. To take the pepper, people light the place on fire, so that the snakes flee down into the earth; because of that, the pepper is black. From Babylon to the city of Persia where the pepper grows is eight hundred of the lesser miles known as stadia.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to flee"
      ],
      "id": "en-fleon-ang-verb-lye1Ruql",
      "links": [
        [
          "flee",
          "flee"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "19 63 19",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "24 51 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "17 67 17",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
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        {
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              26,
              33
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              20,
              28
            ]
          ],
          "english": "The things that you run from are with you.",
          "text": "Mid þē sind þā þing þe þū flīehst.",
          "translation": "The things that you run from are with you.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "God doesn't chase anything, because nothing can run from him.",
          "text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy\nGod ne ēht nānre wihte, for þȳ hine nān wiht ne mæġ flēon.",
          "translation": "God doesn't chase anything, because nothing can run from him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to run away, run from, escape"
      ],
      "id": "en-fleon-ang-verb-1llKnNjl",
      "links": [
        [
          "run",
          "run"
        ],
        [
          "away",
          "away"
        ],
        [
          "from",
          "from"
        ],
        [
          "escape",
          "escape"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to avoid"
      ],
      "id": "en-fleon-ang-verb-pI59IyuX",
      "links": [
        [
          "avoid",
          "avoid"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/fle͜oːn/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-e͜oːn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fleon"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Old English class 2 strong contracted verbs",
    "Old English class 2 strong verbs",
    "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Old English lemmas",
    "Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Old English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:Old English/e͜oːn",
    "Rhymes:Old English/e͜oːn/1 syllable"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "ætflēon"
    },
    {
      "word": "beflēon"
    },
    {
      "word": "forflēon"
    },
    {
      "word": "ōþflēon"
    }
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          "lang_code": "sco",
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      "lang_code": "enm",
      "word": "flen"
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        }
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      "name": "cog"
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      },
      "expansion": "Old Saxon fliohan",
      "name": "cog"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "odt",
        "2": "flian"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Dutch flian",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "fliohan"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German fliohan",
      "name": "cog"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "non",
        "2": "flýja"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse flýja",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "got",
        "2": "𐌸𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌷𐌰𐌽"
      },
      "expansion": "Gothic 𐌸𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌷𐌰𐌽 (þliuhan)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *fleuhan, from Proto-Germanic *fleuhaną. Cognate with Old Frisian fliā, Old Saxon fliohan, Old Dutch flian, Old High German fliohan, Old Norse flýja, Gothic 𐌸𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌷𐌰𐌽 (þliuhan).",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "flēon",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "strong",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "II",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flēon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flēonne",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flēo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flēah",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flīehst",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fluge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flīehþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flēah",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flēoþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flugon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flēo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fluge",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flēon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flugen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flēoh",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flēoþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flēonde",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flogen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ġeflogen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "flēon"
      },
      "expansion": "flēon",
      "name": "ang-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "flēon<s2>"
      },
      "name": "ang-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "...but do Thou receive me now, Thine own servant, for I am fleeing from them.",
          "text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies\n...ac onfōh mē nū þīnne āgene þēawa, for ic eom flēonde fram hym.",
          "translation": "...but do Thou receive me now, Thine own servant, for I am fleeing from them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "In that land there is an abundance of pepper. In their eagerness, the snakes keep the pepper. To take the pepper, people light the place on fire, so that the snakes flee down into the earth; because of that, the pepper is black. From Babylon to the city of Persia where the pepper grows is eight hundred of the lesser miles known as stadia.",
          "text": "Wonders of the East\nOn þām londum byð piperes genihtsumnys. Þone pipor þā nǣddran healdað on hyra ġeornfulnysse. Ðone pipor mon swā nimeð þæt mon þā stōwe mid fȳre onǣleð ⁊ ðonne ðā nǣddran of dūne on eorðan þæt hī flēoð; forðan sē pipor byð sweart. Fram Babilōnia ōð Persiam þā burh ðǣr sē pipor wēaxeð is þǣs lǣssan milgetǣles þe stadia hātte eahta hund mīla.",
          "translation": "In that land there is an abundance of pepper. In their eagerness, the snakes keep the pepper. To take the pepper, people light the place on fire, so that the snakes flee down into the earth; because of that, the pepper is black. From Babylon to the city of Persia where the pepper grows is eight hundred of the lesser miles known as stadia.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to flee"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "flee",
          "flee"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English terms with quotations",
        "Old English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
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              26,
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          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              20,
              28
            ]
          ],
          "english": "The things that you run from are with you.",
          "text": "Mid þē sind þā þing þe þū flīehst.",
          "translation": "The things that you run from are with you.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "God doesn't chase anything, because nothing can run from him.",
          "text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy\nGod ne ēht nānre wihte, for þȳ hine nān wiht ne mæġ flēon.",
          "translation": "God doesn't chase anything, because nothing can run from him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to run away, run from, escape"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "run",
          "run"
        ],
        [
          "away",
          "away"
        ],
        [
          "from",
          "from"
        ],
        [
          "escape",
          "escape"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to avoid"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "avoid",
          "avoid"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/fle͜oːn/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-e͜oːn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fleon"
}

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