flugt

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German vlucht, from Proto-West Germanic *fluhti (“flight”), cognate with English flight, German Flucht, Dutch vlucht. A conflation of two different nouns derived from two different verbs, *fleuhaną (“to flee”) and *fleuganą (“to fly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flokt/, [ˈflɔɡ̊d̥]

Noun

flugt c (singular definite flugten, plural indefinite flugter)

1. escape, flight (to get away from something)
2. flight (of birds)

Declension

Declension of flugt

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	flugt	flugten	flugter	flugterne
genitive	flugts	flugtens	flugters	flugternes

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

flugt f (definite singular flugti, indefinite plural flugter, definite plural flugterne or flugtene)

1. (pre-1917) alternative form of flukt