fleam – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of fleam

Noun: fleam
Gender:

Nominative

Singularflēam
Pluralflēamas

Genitive

Singularflēames
Pluralflēama

Dative

Singularflēame
Pluralflēamum

Accusative

Singularflēam
Pluralflēamas

Sample Sentences

  • 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.)

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *flaumaz.

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