flyte
English edit
Noun edit
flyte (plural flytes)
- Alternative spelling of flite
- 1898, George Saintsbury, A Short History of English Literature:
- The bird of Pallas has also a good flyte on the moral side […] in his suggestion that the principal effect of the nightingale's song is to make women false to their husbands.
Verb edit
flyte (third-person singular simple present flytes, present participle flyting, simple past and past participle flyted)
- Alternative spelling of flite
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
- It was plain she was in the worst of tempers. She flyted on the lass till the poor thing's cheek paled.
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Middle English edit
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flyte
- Alternative form of flyten
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
flyte (imperative flyt, present tense flyter, simple past fløt or fløyt, past participle flytt, present participle flytende)
Derived terms edit
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- flyt (noun)
References edit
- “flyte” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Norse fljóta, from Proto-Germanic *fleutaną. Cognates include English fleet, Dutch vlieten, German fließen, Icelandic fljóta, Faroese flóta, and Danish flyde. Ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *plewd- (“to flow, run”).
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flyte (present tense flyt, past tense flaut, supine flote, past participle floten, present participle flytande, imperative flyt)
- (intransitive) to float
- (intransitive) to flow, stream
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- å fløyte (causative)
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Norse flýta, a factitive of the adjective fljótr (Modern Norwegian Nynorsk fljot and fløt).
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- flyta (a-infinitive)
Verb edit
flyte (present tense flyter, past tense flytte, past participle flytt, passive infinitive flytast, present participle flytande, imperative flyt)
- (transitive) to hurry
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References edit
- “flyte” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.