Participles
| Present | flēonde |
| Past | (ġe)flogen |
Indicative
Present
| 1st sing. | flēo |
| 2nd sing. | flīehst |
| 3rd sing. | flīehþ |
| 1st plur. | flēoþ |
| 2nd plur. | flēoþ |
| 3rd plur. | flēoþ |
Past
| 1st sing. | flēah |
| 2nd sing. | fluge |
| 3rd sing. | flēah |
| 1st plur. | flugon |
| 2nd plur. | flugon |
| 3rd plur. | flugon |
Subjunctive
Present
| 1st sing. | flēo |
| 2nd sing. | flēo |
| 3rd sing. | flēo |
| 1st plur. | flēon |
| 2nd plur. | flēon |
| 3rd plur. | flēon |
Past
| 1st sing. | fluge |
| 2nd sing. | fluge |
| 3rd sing. | fluge |
| 1st plur. | flugen |
| 2nd plur. | flugen |
| 3rd plur. | flugen |
Imperative
| Singular | flēoh |
| Plural | flēoþ |
Verbs conjugated like 'fleon'
fleon,
Verbs similar to 'fleon'
flean,
leon,
pleon,
ætfleon,
aseon,
ateon,
befleon,
beon,
deon,
fleogan,
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). See: Proto-Germanic '
*fleuhaną', Old Saxon '
fliohan', Old High German 'fliohan'.
Sample Sentences
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late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
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...ac onfōh mē nū þīnne āgene þēawa, for ic eom flēonde fram hym. (...but do Thou receive me now, Thine own servant, for I am fleeing from them.)
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Wonders of the East
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On 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. (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.)
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Mid þē sind þā þing þe þū flīehst. (The things that you run from are with you.)
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late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy
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God ne ēht nānre wihte, for þȳ hine nān wiht ne mæġ flēon. (God doesn't chase anything, because nothing can run from him.)
Cognates
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