flina

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse flina, from Proto-Germanic *flinōną, which could have meant "bare (the teeth)," from Proto-Indo-European *plēy-, *plī-, from *pel-, *pʰel, *spʰel- (to cleave, to split off, to cast off).[1]

Verb

flina (present flinar, preterite flinade, supine flinat, imperative flina)

  1. grin (to smile showing the teeth)

Conjugation

References

  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “flaina-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 143

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