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flum (s.xii1/3)

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The form flin is a cross reference to the following entry:

flum (s.xii1/3)

flem,  fleme;  floen;  flom,  floum,  flume;  flun  (flanme  126 flin  54.186)  
  FEW:  flumen 3,643a Gdf:  flun 4,40b GdfC: TL: flum 3,1957 DEAF:  flum  DMF:  flum  TLF: OED:  flume n.  MED:  flum n.  DMLBS:  flumen 967c

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geog.river, stream
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  Magnes [...] En le flum Jordan est trovee  248.1380
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 )  (In paradise:) Bois repleniz de veneisun, E tut li flum de bon peisun. Li flum i sunt qui curent lait  1748-49
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Il tresturnat la mer en sech, el flum trespasserunt a piet  110.LXV.5
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  De la paene gent ultre le flom  (B) 9476
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiiex )  Les primeres (=sapphires) espruveez venet del flum (var. (J: s.xiiiex) flem) Jordan  120.2
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Si vus le flun  (ms. flin) Jurdan passez, repos en ben i troverez  54.186
( c.1325; MS: c.1325 )  yl allat a le flum Jordan  30.18
running water
( s.xiii; MS: s.xiv2/4 )  un sone de flanme (Latin: fluminis) et almes waymentant  126
geog.mill-race, watercourse leading from a mill-wheel
( c.1435 )  Et sol. Rob. Person et Joh’i Pixlay operantibus super mundacione de le fleme retro molend. per 7 dies inter se ad 4d., 2s. 4d.  624
pessun de flums
pessun1
This is an AND2 Phase 2 (F-H) entry. © 2006-2008 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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