Old English · noun

fleard

Part of speech: noun, neuter
Declension: strong a-stem
IPA: /flæ͜ɑrd/
[flæ͜ɑrˠd]
Syllables: flæ͜ɑrd (1 syllable)
Modern English: flirt trickery fraud nonsense superstition vanity deception folly

Meaning

fraud, deceit, trickery, deception
folly, nonsense
vanity
superstition

Declension

Declension of fleard
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fleard	fleard
Accusative	fleard	fleard
Genitive	fleardes	flearda
Dative	flearde	fleardum

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps tied to Proto-Germanic *flaihaz (“sly, underhanded, sneaky”). Compare Old Norse flærð ("fraud, deceit"; whence Icelandic flærð (“deceit”), Swedish flärd (“vanity, frivolity, flamboyance”)), Old English flāh (“insidious, artful, deceitful, fraudulent”).

Descendants

flirt

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