ætfleon

Old English

Etymology

From æt- +‎ flēon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ætˈfle͜oːn/

Verb

ætflēon

1. to flee away, eschew; escape by flight
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Hī ferdon, þurh wissunge þǣs Hālgan Gāstes, tō ðām earde þe is ġehāten Persida, and þǣr ġemetton ðā tweġen drȳmen, Zaroen and Arfaxað, þe ætflugon ðām apostole Mathēō, of ðǣra Silhearwena lande...

     Through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, they went to the land known as Persia, and there encountered the two sorcerers Zaroen and Arfaxath, who had fled from the apostle Matthew in Ethiopia...

Conjugation

Conjugation of ætflēon (strong class 2)

infinitive	ætflēon	ætflēonne
indicative mood	present tense	past tense
first person singular	ætflēo	ætflēah
second person singular	ætflīehst	ætfluge
third person singular	ætflīehþ	ætflēah
plural	ætflēoþ	ætflugon
subjunctive	present tense	past tense
singular	ætflēo	ætfluge
plural	ætflēon	ætflugen
imperative
singular	ætflēoh
plural	ætflēoþ
participle	present	past
	ætflēonde	ætflogen

Descendants

• Middle English: atflen

References

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “ætfleón”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.