flyt
Danish edit
Verb edit
flyt
- imperative of flytte
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old English flit, ġeflit, from Proto-West Germanic *flit. The long vowel was probably leveled in from the verb flyten during the Middle English period; compare chyne.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
flyt
Descendants edit
References edit
- “flīt, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology 1 edit
From the verb flyte.
Noun edit
flyt m (definite singular flyten, indefinite plural flyter, definite plural flytene)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
flyt
- imperative of flyte
References edit
- “flyt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology 1 edit
From the verb flyta.
Noun edit
flyt m (definite singular flyten, indefinite plural flytar, definite plural flytane)
Verb edit
flyt
- present tense of flyta
- imperative of flyta
Etymology 2 edit
Inflected form of now superseded flytja.
Verb edit
flyt
References edit
- “flyt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams edit
Old Norse edit
Verb edit
flyt
- first-person singular present indicative active of flytja
- second-person singular imperative active of flytja
Anagrams edit
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
flyt n
- (colloquial) flow (things proceeding smoothly and well)
- Han har ett skönt flyt i gitarrspelandet
- He has a nice flow in his guitar playing
- (colloquial, by implication) luck
- Antonym: oflyt
- – Tre ess i rad! – Jo, det gäller att ha lite flyt.
- – Three aces in a row! – Yeah, you gotta have some luck.
Declension edit
| Declension of flyt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | flyt | flytet | — | — |
| Genitive | flyts | flytets | — | — |
Verb edit
flyt
- imperative of flyta
References edit
- flyt in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- flyt in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- flyt in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)