flana

From Old Norse flana, possibly from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). Borrowed into French as flâner (“to loiter, waste time”).

• Rhymes: -aːna

flana (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative flanaði, supine flanað)

1. (intransitive) to act rashly, get into something heedlessly, to rush

   Það er best að fara sér hægt og flana ekki að neinu.

   It's best to go slowly and not rush into anything.

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• (act rashly): gana, álpast, æða, gera í fljótræði

• flana að
• flana ekki að

• bráðlæti
• fljótfærni
• óðslegur

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “flaneur”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “flaneur”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

flāna

1. nominative/accusative/genitive plural of flān