# fuir
## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French fuyr, fuir (“to flee”), from Old French fuir, from Vulgar Latin *fūgīre, from Latin fugere, from Proto-Italic *fugiō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɥiʁ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -iʁ

### Verb

fuir
* (intransitive) to escape
* (transitive) to flee
* (intransitive) to leak; to have a leak
    Le robinet fuit. ― The faucet is leaking.

#### Derived terms

* fuir comme la peste

#### Related terms

* enfuir
* fugace
* fugitif
* fugue
* fuguer
* fuie
* fuite
* s’enfuir

### Further reading

* “fuir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Ladino
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish foir, fuir (“to flee”), from Vulgar Latin *fūgīre, from Latin fugere, from Proto-Italic *fugiō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg-.

### Verb

fuír (Hebrew spelling פ׳ואיר)
* (intransitive, reflexive) To flee.
    Synonym: bolar
** 1910, Reuben Eliyahu Israel, Traducsion libera de las poezias ebraicas de Roş Aşana i Kipur‎, Craiova: Institutul Grafic, I. Samitca şi D. Baraş, Socieatate in Comandita, →OCLC, page 10:Cualo respondire? Aiuda de ken demandare? En dia de tu giuzgo onde io me fuire?Who shall respond? Whose help shall I request? Where shall I flee on your day of judgement?

### References

* ↑ “fuir”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

## Middle French
### Verb

fuir
* Alternative spelling of fuyr

## Old Dutch
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fuir, from Proto-Germanic *fōr, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fy.ir/

### Noun

fuir n
* fire
* passion, emotion

#### Derived terms

* *fuiron

#### Descendants

* Middle Dutch: vuur
** Dutch: vuur, vier (Southern)
*** Afrikaans: vuur
*** Javindo: vier
*** Jersey Dutch: vuer, vîr
*** Negerhollands: vuur, fi, vier
*** Skepi Creole Dutch: fir
** Limburgish: vuur
** West Flemish: vier
** Zealandic: vier

### Further reading

* “fuir”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* foïr, fuïr

### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *fūgīre, from Latin fugere.

### Verb

fuir
* To flee.

#### Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb ends in a palatal stem, so there is an extra i before the e of some endings. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

#### Derived terms

* fuiant

#### Related terms

* fuie

#### Descendants

* Middle French: fuyr
** French: fuir

## Old Spanish
### Verb

fuir
* (intransitive) Alternative form of foir
** c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 4v:Del dezeno grado del ſigno de aries es la piedra que fuye dela leche.Of the tenth degree of the sign of Aries is the stone that flees from milk.

### References

* Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “fuir”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 270

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fuˈiɾ/ [fuˈiɾ]
* Rhymes: -iɾ
* Syllabification: fu‧ir

### Verb

fuir (first-person singular present fuyo, first-person singular preterite fui, past participle fuido)
* Obsolete form of huir.

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

### Further reading

* “fuir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10