vlijen
- (transitive) to lay, to place
- to lie down, to sit down
- (obsolete, transitive) to make to size, to make (something) fit
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈvlɛi̯.ə(n)/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle Dutch vliën (“to arrange, to organize, to give something its place”), from Proto-West Germanic *flīhan, of unknown ultimate origin; possibly related to the root of *flaihijan (“to be sly, to flatter”), though the semantic gap is wide.
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