flight

• n. 逃走；逃亡
• vt.撃つ；怖がらせて逃がす
• vi. 移動する
• n. （飛行）人名；（英）フリート

flyの名詞形から。

flight

flight: [OE] English has two distinct, etymologically unrelated words flight. One, ‘flying’, comes from a prehistoric West Germanic *flukhtiz, a derivative of the same base as produced fly (the sense ‘series of stairs’, which developed in the 18th century, was perhaps modelled on French volée d’escalier, literally ‘flight of stairs’). The other, ‘escape’, comes from a hypothetical Old English *flyht, never actually recorded, which goes back ultimately to the same Germanic base as produced flee.
=> flee, fly

flight (n.1)

"act of flying," Old English flyht "a flying, act or power of flying," from Proto-Germanic *flukhtiz (cognates: Dutch vlucht "flight of birds," Old Norse flugr, Old High German flug, German Flug "flight"), from Proto-Germanic *flug-ti-, from PIE *pluk-, from root *pleu- "to flow" (see fly (v.1)).

Spelling altered late 14c. from Middle English fliht (see fight (v.)). Sense of "swift motion" is from mid-13c.. Meaning "an instance of flight" is 1785, originally of ballooning. Sense of "a number of things passing through the air together" is from mid-13c. Meaning "series of stairs between landings" is from 1703. Figuratively, "an excursion" of fancy, imagination, etc., from 1660s. Flight-path is from 1908; flight-test (v.) from 1919; flight-simulator from 1947 (originally in rocketry); flight-attendant from 1946.

flight (n.2)

"act of fleeing," c. 1200, flihht, not found in Old English, but presumed to have existed and cognate with Old Saxon fluht, Old Frisian flecht "act of fleeing," Dutch vlucht, Old High German fluht, German Flucht, Old Norse flotti, Gothic tlauhs, from Proto-Germanic *flug-ti- (see flight (n.1)). To put (someone or something) to flight "rout, defeat" is from late 14c., the earlier verb form do o' flight (early 13c.).

1. She made her first and only space flight last September.

彼女が最初で唯一宇宙飛行をしたのは昨年9月だった。

2.The family was often in flight ，hiding out in friends 'houses.

この家族はよくチベットを避けて、友達の家で風を避けている。

3.I arrived just in time for my flight to London.

私はロンドン行きのフライトに間に合った。

4.A flight of stone steps leads to the terrace.

石段がテラスに通じる。

5.On the flight from Paris to Toulon，Mechiche fell prey to panic.

パリからトゥーロンへのフライトで、メヒシュはうろたえていた。