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語源 1

From 中期英語 fleme, fleom, from Old French flieme, flemie (“open vein”), probably via a Proto-Germanic source (compare Old Saxon flēma, Old High German fliotuma, fliodema, 古期英語 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.

別の表記

• phleam (archaic)

名詞

fleam (plural fleams)

1. A sharp instrument used to open a vein, to lance gums, or the like.
   • 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse

     A bloodstick - a piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead — is used to strike the fleam into the vein

上位語

• (sharp instrument): lancet

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 fleem, flem (“the rushing of water; current”), probably from 古期英語 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”).

別の表記

• fleem

名詞

fleam (plural fleams)

1. (UK, dialectal, Northern England) The watercourse or runoff from a mill; millstream
2. (UK, dialectal, Northern England) A large trench or gully cut into a meadow in order to drain it

関連する語

• fleme (verb)
• Flemish

アナグラム

• femal, flame

発音

• IPA: /flæ͜ɑːm/

名詞

flēam m

1. escape, flight

   Fram sagum ne biþ nān flēam: hīe nabbaþ nānne anġinn and nānne ende.

   There is no escape from stories: they have no beginning and no end.

   Þā ġeflogenan rǣplingas sind nū ġīet on flēame.

   The escaped prisoners are still on the run (literally "in flight" or "in an escape").

   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Sē wōda ðā āwende āweġ his ċeaflas fram ðǣre hālgan handa, swilċe fram hātum īsene, and sē āwyrġeda gāst ġewāt of ðām men ūt ðurh his ġesċēapu, mid sċēandlīcum flēame.

     The madman then turned his cheeks away from the holy man's hands as if from hot iron, and the accursed spirit departed the man through his genitals with shameful flight.

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

派生語

• flīeman
• tōflēam

派生した語

• Middle English: flem, fleem, fleme, flæm, fleam, vlem (Early Middle English)
  • English: fleam (dialectal)
  • Scots: fleem