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Fli Aryan languages have an allied shorter root plu;  πλέω, ‘to navigate, swim,’  plu, pru, ‘to swim,’  pluere, ‘to rain’ ( in a restricted sense).   ,, ‘fleam, lancet,’ from the  vliete, vlieten,  flietuma; further derived from  and  phlebotomum, ‘lancet, an instrument for opening veins,’ whence also the  cognates  flŷtme,  flamme,  fleam,  vlijm.  ,, ‘to glimmer, sparkle, scintillate,’ like the older , a derivative, by gradation, of. ,, ‘brisk, nimble, lively,’ simply from  and  flink, ‘brisk, agile, nimble’; akin to earlier  , ‘to glitter, shine’;   ἀργός, ‘gleaming, quick.’  ,, ‘flintlock, gun, musket,’ first used in the 17th ;  flint, ‘musket’; probably akin to  flinta,  flint, ‘stone,’  ‘flint-stone.’  and  preserve older terms —  vuurroer,  ,  firelock. Flint, ‘stone,’ and  flint, whence  flin, ‘thunderstone,’ is probably related to  πλίνθος, ‘brick.’   ,, ‘spangle, tinsel,’ simply ; ‘a small thin tin coin’; akin to  gevlitter, ‘secret laughter, tittering,’ vlittern, , ‘to whisper, titter,’  flitarezzen, ‘to coax in a flattering manner’;  fliteren, ‘to flutter,’  flittermouse. The root idea is ‘unsteady motion,’ upon which  is based. With the meaning of flitarezzen, ‘to flatter, fondle,’ as well as  flïtern, ‘to whisper, titter,’ is connected, , which first occurs in early. The following foreign terms are interesting: — hjúnóttsmánaþr,  ‘a month of the nuptial night’;  hvedebrodsdage,  ‘wheat-bread days’;  honeymoon, derived from the  word?, or rather formed from the Romance phrases, such as  lune de miel,  luna di miele.   ,, ‘crossbow,’ first occurs in early from ;   flitsboog, ‘crossbow,’ from  flits, ‘javelin’; hence  flèche, ‘arrow,’ and its Romance cognates are probably derived.   ,, ‘flake, flock (of wool), flue,’ from vlocke, , ‘flake, snowflake,’  floccho;   vlok,  flokke,  flokka,  (not in ) flock,  but  flóke, ‘flock (of hair, wool, &c.).’ The supposition that the word was borrowed from  floccus is hardly worth considering, since the  word is recorded even in the  period, and gives no support to such a derivation (yet  ). Besides many possible roots exist within the group, either in  ( root flugh, from pre- plugh) or in  flacor, ‘flying’ (see ); on account of  flóke, the latter is to be preferred. flock, ‘herd,’ is beside the mark; like flokkr, ‘herd, flock,’ and  flocc, it almost certainly belongs to, and probably signified  ‘a swarm of flying creatures’ (, ‘covey,’ on the other hand, meant  ‘any kind of herd’).   ,, ‘flea,’ from vlôch, vlô, , ,  flôh, ; a common  term;   floo,  fleáh,  flea,  fló. It probably means ‘fugitive,’ and is akin to ; hence a *þláuhs, not *fláuhs, is to be assumed. But even if *fláuhs is the form, it cannot be connected with either  Ψύλλα or  pulex, since neither vowels nor consonants are in accord. too is unrelated, since the final sound of its stem is g only, and not h.   ,, ‘gauze, crape, bloom,’ only; formed from  floers; akin to  floier, ‘headdress with dangling ribbons’ ?, flôrsen, ‘adornment, finery’?. <section end="Flor" /> <section begin="Florin" /> ,, ‘florin,’ from late flôrîn, , ‘a gold coin first made in Florence, and stamped with a lily, the armorial bearings of the town’ (appeared about the middle of the 14th );  florinus, from flos, ‘flower’;  fiore. <section end="Florin" /> <section begin="Floskel" /> ,, ‘flourish, showy phrase,’ simply late , from floscellus. <section end="Floskel" /> <section begin="Flosse" /> ,, from the  vloȥȥe,  floȥȥa, , ‘float; , ‘fin,’ even in  vloȥvëdere, in  simply fëthara, ‘float,’ like  πτέρυξ, ‘feather, float,’  pinna, ‘feather, float.’ See. , akin to, ‘to float.’ <section end="Flosse" /> <section begin="Floß" /> ,, ‘float, raft, buoy, stream, fishing-net,’ from vlôȥ,  flôȥ, , , ‘raft,’ also in  and  in the senses ‘current, flood, river’;  vlot, ‘raft’;   fleót, , ‘ship,’  fleet,  flota, ‘ship’ (also ‘mariner, sailor’),  float,  and verb; note too  flŷte, ‘cream, flos lactis,’ with which  to fleet (‘to skim’) is connected,  flot, ‘cream’;<section end="Floß" />