Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *plew-
3. Proto-Indo-European *plewk-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-eti
5. Proto-Indo-European *pléwketi
6. Proto-Germanic *fleuganą
7. Proto-West Germanic *fleugan
8. Old English flēogan
9. Middle English fliender.
10. English fly
11. From Middle English flei, fley, fleye, fleȝhenn, flien, fliȝe, flyen, flyyn, from Old English flēgan, flēogan, from Proto-West Germanic *fleugan, from Proto-Germanic *fleuganą (“to fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to flow, fly, run; to splash”), enlargement of *plew- (“to flow, fly, run”). Compare Etymology 1.
12. Cognates
13. Cognate with Scots flei (“to fly”), Yola vlee (“to fly”), North Frisian fli, fliin, fliine, fliinj, flä, fläie, flö (“to fly”), Saterland Frisian fljoge, fljooge (“to fly”), West Frisian fleane (“to fly”), Central Franconian fleeje (“to fly”), Dutch vliegen (“to fly”), Low German flegen (“to fly”), German fliegen (“to fly”), Luxembourgish fléien (“to fly”), Vilamovian fłig (“to fly”), Yiddish פֿליִען (flien, “to fly”), Danish flyve (“to fly”), Faroese fljúgva, flúgva (“to fly”), Icelandic fljúga (“to fly”), Norwegian Bokmål fly, flyge, flyve (“to fly”), Norwegian Nynorsk fljuga, fly, flyga, flyge (“to fly”), Scanian flyğa (“to fly”), Swedish flyga (“to fly”); also Cornish lew (“rudder”), Old Irish luí (“rudder”), Welsh llyw (“rudder”), Latin pluit, pluō (“to rain”), Ancient Greek πλέω (pléō, “to sail; to float”), Lithuanian plaukti (“to swim; to float”), Bulgarian пля́скам (pljáskam, “to slap; to clap; to splash; to jabber; to blemish”), Czech pleskat (“to slap; to flap, lap”), Macedonian плеска (pleska, “to slap”), Russian плеска́ть (pleskátʹ, “to splash”), Serbo-Croatian пље̏скати, pljȅskati (“to applaud; to slap”), Ukrainian плеска́ти (pleskáty, “to splash”), Armenian լուանալ (luanal), լվալ (lval), լվանալ (lvanal, “to wash”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B plu- (“to fly”), Sanskrit प्लु (plu, “to float; to sail”). More at flee and flow. See: Proto-Germanic '
*fleuganą', Scots '
flei', Frisian, Saterlandic 'fljoge', Dutch '
vliegen', Low Saxon 'flegen', German, old spelling '
fliegen', Luxembourgish '
fléien', Danish '
flyve', Faroese '
fljúgva', Icelandic '
fljúga', Norwegian '
fly', Norwegian, nynorsk '
fljuga', Swedish '
flyga', Cornish '
lew', Greek, Ancient '
πλέω', Lithuanian '
plaukti', Bulgarian '
пля́скам', Czech '
pleskat', Macedonian '
плеска', Russian '
плеска́ть', Ukrainian '
плеска́ти', Armenian '
լուանալ', Sanskrit '
प्लु'.
Verbs referencing "fly"
Sranan
frei, Norwegian
fly, French
flyer, Danish
flyve, Norwegian, nynorsk
flyga, Lithuanian
plaukti, Luxembourgish
fléien, Tok Pisin flai, Low Saxon flegen.