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Where does “flinguer” come from?

flinguer (French) comes from French -er, from Middle French -er, from Old French -ier — suffix used to form infinitives of first...

flinguer (French): to gun, to gun down; to commit suicide with a gun

Definitions

  1. to gun, to gun down; to commit suicide with a gun

Ancestry of “flinguer”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1French-erForms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs
2Middle French-erForms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs;...
3Old French-iersuffix used to form infinitives of first...

Words derived from “flinguer”

  • flinguer
  • flingue
  • flingot
Every word from Old French -ier →