Fly

Morpheme

Fly

Type

free base

Denotation

flee, escape, run away

Etymology

variant of flee, from Middle English flien, fleyen; Old English flēon

Evidence

flies, fly, flying

Notes

<y> need not toggle (but can) with suffixes, especially in monosyllabic bases ending in <y>
confused with Fly denoting “travel through the air” since Old English