# flemen
## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

Possibly related to Middle Dutch fleeuwen (“to coax, cajole”), which is likely akin to the synonym vleien. For the alternation between -w- and -m- between fleeuwen and flemen, the cases of schremen and schreeuwen (both meaning "to scream") have been adduced as comparanda, but there does not seem to be a clear explanation that would account for this seemingly irregular alternation. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

#### Verb

flemen
* (intransitive) to sweet-talk, wheedle, cajole
    Synonym: vleien

##### Derived terms

* gefleem

### Etymology 2

From German flehmen.

#### Verb

flemen
* (intransitive, zoology) to flehm

##### Conjugation
### Further reading

* flemen on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{nl}$
* van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “flemen”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to blow”), with a noun-forming suffix -men. Cognate with Latin flō (“I blow”), English blow, Old Armenian բեղուն (bełun, “fertile”), Albanian plas (“to blow, explode”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈfleː.men/, [ˈfɫ̪eːmɛn]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈfle.men/, [ˈflɛːmen]

### Noun

flēmen n (genitive flēminis); third declension
* A bloody swelling about the ankles

#### Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

### References

* “flemina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* flemen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* ↑ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “bhel-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 120-121

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* flem, fleme
* flæmen, fleome (Early Middle English)
* vleme (Kent)

### Etymology

From Old English flīeman (“to put to flight, drive away, banish”), from flēam (“flight, flow”) as if Proto-West Germanic *flaumijan; by surface analysis, fleme (“exile”) +‎ -en (infinitival suffix).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfleːmən/

### Verb

flemen (third-person singular simple present flemeth, present participle flemende, flemynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle flemed)
* To drive away or banish; to force out.
** 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum xxxviij”, in, book IX, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:Sir kynge, ye ded a fowle shame whan ye flemyd Sir Trystram oute of thys contrey, for ye nedid nat to have doughted no knyght and he had bene here.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** To (legally or officially exile from a jurisdiction.
** To remove or expel (a spirit or emotion)
* (rare) To denounce or damn; to speak against.
* (rare) To be expelled or forced out.

#### Conjugation

| infinitive | (to) flemen, fleme | (to) flemen, fleme |
| | present tense | past tense |
| 1st-person singular | fleme | flemed |
| 2nd-person singular | flemest | flemedest |
| 3rd-person singular | flemeth | flemed |
| subjunctive singular | fleme | flemed |
| imperative singular | fleme | — |
| plural$^1$ | flemen, fleme | flemeden, flemede |
| imperative plural | flemeth, fleme | — |
| participles | flemynge, flemende | flemed, yflemed |
$^1$Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

#### Descendants

* English: fleme (obsolete)
* Scots: fleem, fleme (obsolete)

#### References

* “flẹ̄men, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.