vlijen

  1. (transitive) to lay, to place
  2. to lie down, to sit down
  3. (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.

in bed stoppen

naar bed brengen

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