flyte

English

Noun

flyte (plural flytes)

1. 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

flyte (third-person singular simple present flytes, present participle flyting, simple past and past participle flyted)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• Felty, felty, lefty, yleft

Middle English

Verb

flyte

1. Alternative form of flyten

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse fljóta.

Verb

flyte (imperative flyt, present tense flyter, simple past fløt or fløyt, past participle flytt, present participle flytende)

1. to float
2. to flow; run
3. to overflow

Derived terms

• flytebrygge
• flytedokk
• flyte på flesket

Related terms

• flyt (noun)

References

• “flyte” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

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”).

Alternative forms

• flyta (a-infinitive)
• (non-standard since 1938) fljota, fljote

Verb

flyte (present tense flyt, past tense flaut, supine flote, past participle floten, present participle flytande, imperative flyt)

1. (intransitive) to float
2. (intransitive) to flow, stream

Derived terms

• flyt
• flyte med mjølk og honning
• flyte opp
• flyte på
• flyte på flesket
• flyte saman
• flytebru
• flytebrygge
• flytedokk
• flyteevne
• flytegarn
• flytekork
• flytekule
• flyteline
• flytenót
• flytetrål
• flytevest
• tilflyte

 

Related terms

• å fløyte (causative)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse flýta, a factitive of the adjective fljótr (Modern Norwegian Nynorsk fljot and fløt).

Alternative forms

• flyta (a-infinitive)

Verb

flyte (present tense flyter, past tense flytte, past participle flytt, passive infinitive flytast, present participle flytande, imperative flyt)

1. (transitive) to hurry

Derived terms

• flyte på

Related terms

• fljot
• fljote

References

• “flyte” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• flyet, fylte, lyfte