flage

From Old Norse flak (“loose or torn piece”), flakna (“flake or chip”), from Proto-Germanic *flaką (“something flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”).

• IPA^(key): /flaːjə/, [ˈflæːjə]

flage c (singular definite flagen, plural indefinite flager)

1. flake
2. floe

flage (imperative flag, infinitive at flage, present tense flager, past tense flagede, perfect tense har flaget)

1. fly a flag

• Flaga, flaga, flagu (noun, defunct and obsolete)
• flaga (verb, split or a-infinitive)

From Old Norse flaga f.

flage f (definite singular flaga, indefinite plural flager, definite plural flagene)

1. a gust of wind
2. sudden pain, attack, pang or throe
3. Sudden rays or outbursts of light or colour.

flage (present tense flagar, past tense flaga, past participle flaga, passive infinitive flagast, present participle flagande, imperative flage/flag)

1. to flash, to streak, to briefly make or become visible
   • 1979, Ola Setrom, Medan steinane mel, page 111:

     Jo ser på Marete med det same, og han ansar at det flagar ein veik raudlet over kinna hennar.

     Jo looks at Marete at once, and notices that there flashes a weak red colour over her cheeks.

• “flage” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• gafle