flet
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Etymology edit
From 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.
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flet (plural flets)
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Albanian edit
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flet
Danish edit
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flet
- imperative of flette
French edit
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flet m (plural flets)
- flounder (fish)
Further reading edit
- “flet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Icelandic edit
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flet n (genitive singular flets, nominative plural flet)
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Further reading edit
- “flet” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)
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flet
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old English flet, flett (“floor, ground; dwelling, house”), from Proto-Germanic *flatją (“floor”), from Proto-Germanic *flataz (“flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *plat- (“flat”).
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Noun edit
flet (plural flets)
- the floor, ground
- c. 1400, Northern Verse Psalter:
- Cliued mi saule to þi flet.
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- 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 edit
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flet
- Alternative form of flete (“fleet”)
Old English edit
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Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Germanic *flatją (“floor”), from Proto-Germanic *flataz (“flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *plat- (“flat”). Akin to Old Frisian flet, flette (“dwelling, house”).
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flet 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.
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- fletræst (“couch”)
- fletsittend (“sitter in hall, courtier, guest”)
- fletwerod (“hall-troop, body-guard”)
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Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *flautiz.
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Noun edit
flēt f (nominative plural flēta)
- Alternative form of flīete
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References 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 edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *flatją. Related to flatr.
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flet n
- the raised flooring along the side walls of a hall (to sit or lie on) together with the benches thereon
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References edit
- “flet”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle High German floit, flöute, vloite, from Old French fleute, from Old Occitan flaut.
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flet 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
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- flecić impf
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Sranan Tongo edit
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From Dutch flit, a genericized use of the brand name FLIT.
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flet
- liquid insecticide
- spray gun
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flet
- to spray
Tok Pisin edit
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flet