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Fle that the specialised meaning of the word was the oldest, and that the meaning common to West  was established only by generalisation;   flikke,  flicce,  flitch ( flick), as well as  (Kent.) flœc for flœ̂sc, ‘meat.’  poltĭ,  páltis, ‘flitch,’ cannot, on account of their vowel-sounds, be cognates. The k of the word is probably a suffix;   vleezig, ‘plump’?. — , ‘incarnate,’ simply formed like the  incarnatus, ‘embodied.’   ,, ‘industry, application, diligence,’ from vlîȥ,  flîȥ,  ‘diligence, zeal, care,’  also ‘contest,’ from  flîȥȥan,  vlîȥen, ‘to be zealous, apply oneself,  ,  ,. vlijt, ‘diligence,’ flitan, ‘to emulate, quarrel, contend,’  to flite. On the evolution of meaning see. ‘To emulate’ seems to have been the meaning of the merely West  root flī̆t ( fl- or þl-? — see ). No further references have been discovered.  ,, ‘to weep ruefully, grin,’ from *vlennen; akin to  flannên, ‘to make a wry face,’ from pre- *flaznan?. Root flas, from pre- plos, in plôrare, ‘to weep’?. ,, ‘to beat flat, grin,’ from vletsen, ‘to show one's teeth’; remoter history obscure. ,, from the  vlicken, ‘to put on a patch, mend’; akin to.  ,, ‘elder,’ simply from. ;  vlier, ‘elder.’ Earlier forms are not recorded; the word did not originate in either, , or.   ,, ‘fly, fluke (of an anchor),’ from the  fliege,  flioga, ;   vlieg,  fleóge,  to  fly, which is based upon  flŷge,  fliuga,  fliuge, ‘fly’; hence a mutated form ( *fliugjô), besides an unmutated  *fliugô; in  with a different gradation fluga, , ‘fly, moth’; akin to  ( *fliugan). For an older term for ‘fly’ see under.  ,, from the  vliegen,  fliogan, ‘to fly’;   vliegen,  fleógan (3rd  flŷhþ),  to fly,  fljúga; the common  term for ‘to fly’;  *fliugan may be inferred from the factitive flaugjan, ‘to keep on flying.’  is in no wise connected  with , as is proved by the initial sound of the root in  þliuhan, ‘to flee,’ compared with usflaugjan; see ,. root fliug, from pre- pleugh, plugh; akin to plûma for plûhma?. For an older root extending beyond see under. ,, ‘to flee,’ from the  vliehen,  fliohan; corresponds to  fliohan,  fleón (from fleóhan),  to flee,  flýja; the f before l is a common substitution for an older initial þ, as in  ( þlaihan),  (from  þlaqus);   þliuhan, ‘to flee.’ This older form was retained only in ;  has f (flýja), like the West  verbs. Hence the root is þluh, and by a grammatical change þlug, pre- root tluk, tleuk. is allied, since it is based upon the root plugh. In the earliest and in West  the forms of both the verbs must undoubtedly have been confused; thus  flugu and  flugon in the earliest period may mean ‘they fled’ and ‘they flew.’ See.  ', ',, ‘fleece,’ from the  vlies, ;   vlies,  fleós, ,  fleece; also a mutated form  flýs, flýss,  vlius, earlier  fleuss, flüss. A second parallel form is represented by. In the cognates are wanting; whether  *fl- or *þliusis, , is to be assumed we cannot say, since satisfactory references to non- forms have not yet been produced. To explain from  vellus is futile, since the latter is more probably  allied to, and to regard  as borrowed from vellus is impossible; , , &c., are also totally unconnected with the word.   ,, ‘to flow, stream,’ from the  vlieȥen,  flioȥȥan,  ; corresponds to  fliotan,  vlieten,  fleótan,  to fleet,  fljóta,  *fliutan, ‘to flow.’ The  root fliut, flut, from pre- pleud-plud, corresponds to  pludêt, ‘to float,’ plûdi, inundation,’  plústi, ‘to take to swimming,’ plûdìs, ‘floating wood.’ Several  terms for ‘ships’ point to the latter sense, which, of course, is earlier than the  ‘flowing,’ though in   and ,  signifies ‘to be driven by flowing water, to swim.’ See ,  (,  flôdus, is not a cognate). Instead of the root plud, other 