flet

See also: flēt

English

Alternative forms

• flette (obsolete)

Etymology

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 *plad- (“flat, broad”). Cognate with Dutch vlet (“vessel”), Low German Flet (“an upper bedroom”), German Fletz, Flötz (“level ground, threshing floor, hallway, set of rooms or benches”). More at flat.

Noun

flet (plural flets)

1. (rare or dialectal) Floor; bottom; lower surface.
2. (rare or dialectal) A house; home.

Anagrams

• FELT, Felt, TEFL, felt, left

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Danish

Verb

flet

1. imperative of flette

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flɛ/

Noun

flet m (plural flets)

1. flounder (fish)

Further reading

• “flet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /flet/, [flɛt̪]

Verb

flet

1. third-person singular present active indicative of fleō

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Middle English

Etymology 1

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flɛt/

Noun

flet (plural flets)

1. the floor, ground

   Cliued mi saule to þi flet. — Northern Verse Psalter, 1400

2. a dwelling, habitation, house, cottage, hall

   Þe lorde..Fyndez fire vpon flet, þe freke þer byside. — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 1400

3. A (level) piece of ground; a battlefield

   Wiþ four othre meteþ he ... & fuld hem on þe flette. — Sir Firumbras, c1380

Descendants

• English: flet

References

• Middle English Dictionary, flet

Etymology 2

From Old English flēot (“fleet”).

Noun

flet

1. Alternative form of flete (“fleet”)

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Old English

Alternative forms

• fled, flett

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *flatją (“floor”), from Proto-Germanic *flataz (“flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *plat- (“flat”). Akin to Old Frisian flet, flette (“dwelling, house”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flet/

Noun

flet n (nominative plural flet)

1. the floor, ground

   Heó on flet gecrong — She sank to the ground.

2. a dwelling, habitation, house, cottage, hall

   Gif ðæt flet geblódgad wyrþe. — If the house be stained with blood.

Declension

Declension of flet (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	flet	flet
accusative	flet	flet
genitive	fletes	fleta
dative	flete	fletum

Derived terms

• fletræst f. — couch
• fletsittend m. — sitter in hall, courtier, guest.
• fletwerod n. — hall-troop, body-guard

Descendants

• Middle English: flet
  • English: flet

Etymology 2

Likely from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-, *plew- (“to float, swim, fly”); compare Danish fløde (“cream”), Icelandic fleytið (“skimming”), Norwegian fløte (“cream”)

Alternative forms

• flete, fliet, flyte

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fleːt/

Noun

flēt f (nominative plural flēta)

1. cream, skimming, curds

   Hwít sealt dó on reám oððe góde fléte. — Put white salt into cream or good skimmings.

Declension

Declension of flet (strong i-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	flēt	flēte, flēta
accusative	flēt, flēte	flēte, flēta
genitive	flēte	flēta
dative	flēte	flētum

References

• 1916, John R. Clark, "A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary for the Use of Students", flet et al.
• Bosworth, J. (2010, March 21). An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online (T. N. Toller & Others, Eds.), flet.

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Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *flatją. Related to flatr.

Noun

flet n

1. the raised flooring along the side walls of a hall (to sit or lie on) together with the benches thereon

Declension

  Declension of flet (strong ja-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	flet	fletit	flet	fletin
accusative	flet	fletit	flet	fletin
dative	fleti	fletinu	fletjum	fletjunum
genitive	flets	fletsins	fletja	fletjanna

References

• flet in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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Polish

flet

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flɛt/

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Noun

flet m inan

1. flute (woodwind instrument)

Declension

declension of flet

	singular	plural
nominative	flet	flety
genitive	fletu	fletów
dative	fletowi	fletom
accusative	flet	flety
instrumental	fletem	fletami
locative	flecie	fletach
vocative	flecie	flety

Derived terms

• flecista, flecistka

Further reading

• flet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English flat.

Noun

flet

1. flat; apartment