flet
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English flet (“floor of a house; house”), from Old English flet, flett (“the ground; the floor of a house; house; dwelling”), from Proto-Germanic *flatją (“a flat or level surface, level ground, floor, hallway”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat, broad”). Cognate with Dutch vlet (“flat-bottomed vessel, dory”), Low German Flet (“an upper bedroom”), German Fletz, Flötz (“level ground, threshing floor, hallway, set of rooms or benches”). More at flat.
Noun
editflet (plural flets)
Anagrams
editAlbanian
editVerb
editflet
Danish
editVerb
editflet
- imperative of flette
French
editPronunciation
editNoun
editflet m (plural flets)
- flounder (fish)
Further reading
edit- “flet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Icelandic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *flatją.
Noun
editflet n (genitive singular flets, nominative plural flet)
Declension
editDeclension of flet | ||||
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n-s | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | flet | fletið | flet | fletin |
accusative | flet | fletið | flet | fletin |
dative | fleti | fletinu | fletum | fletunum |
genitive | flets | fletsins | fleta | fletanna |
Further reading
edit- “flet” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)
Latin
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /flet/, [fɫ̪ɛt̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /flet/, [flɛt̪]
Verb
editflet
Middle English
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old English flet, flett (“floor, ground; dwelling, house”), from Proto-Germanic *flatją (“floor”), from Proto-Germanic *flataz (“flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *plat- (“flat”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editflet (plural flets)
- the floor, ground
- c. 1400, Northern Verse Psalter:
- Cliued mi saule to þi flet.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- a dwelling, habitation, house, cottage, hall
- Þe lorde..Fyndez fire vpon flet, þe freke þer byside. — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 1400
- A (level) piece of ground; a battlefield
- Wiþ four othre meteþ he ... & fuld hem on þe flette. — Sir Firumbras, c1380
Descendants
edit- English: flet
References
edit- “flet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
editNoun
editflet
- Alternative form of flete (“fleet”)
Old English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology 1
editFrom Proto-Germanic *flatją (“floor”), from Proto-Germanic *flataz (“flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *plat- (“flat”). Akin to Old Frisian flet, flette (“dwelling, house”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editflet n (nominative plural flet)
- the floor, ground
- Heó on flet gecrong ― She sank to the ground.
- a dwelling, habitation, house, cottage, hall
- Gif ðæt flet geblódgad wyrþe. ― If the house be stained with blood.
Declension
editDerived terms
edit- fletræst (“couch”)
- fletsittend (“sitter in hall, courtier, guest”)
- fletwerod (“hall-troop, body-guard”)
Descendants
editEtymology 2
editInherited from Proto-Germanic *flautiz.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editflēt f (nominative plural flēta)
- Alternative form of flīete
Declension
editReferences
edit- John R. Clark Hall (1916) “flet”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “flet”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Old Norse
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *flatją. Related to flatr.
Noun
editflet n
- the raised flooring along the side walls of a hall (to sit or lie on) together with the benches thereon
Declension
editReferences
edit- “flet”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Polish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Middle High German floit, flöute, vloite, from Old French fleute, from Old Occitan flaut.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editflet m inan (diminutive flecik)
- flute (woodwind instrument)
- recorder (musical instrument of the woodwind family; a type of fipple flute, a simple internal duct flute)
- Synonym: flet prosty
- (historical) narrow and tall winecup
Declension
editDerived terms
edit- flecić impf
Related terms
editFurther reading
editSranan Tongo
editEtymology
editFrom Dutch flit, a genericized use of the brand name FLIT.
Noun
editflet
- liquid insecticide
- spray gun
Verb
editflet
- to spray
Tok Pisin
editEtymology
editNoun
editflet
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