flet

• flette (obsolete)

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.

flet (plural flets)

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

• FELT, Felt, TEFL, felt, left

flet

1. imperative of flette

• IPA^(key): /flɛ/

flet m (plural flets)

1. flounder (fish)

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

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

flet

1. third-person singular present active indicative of fleō

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”).

• IPA^(key): /flɛt/

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

• English: flet

• Middle English Dictionary, flet

From Old English flēot (“fleet”).

flet

1. Alternative form of flete (“fleet”)

• fled, flett

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

• IPA^(key): /flet/

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.

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

• Middle English: flet
  • English: flet

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”)

• flete, fliet, flyte

• IPA^(key): /fleːt/

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.

• 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.

• IPA^(key): /flɛt/

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flet m inan

1. flute (woodwind instrument)

• flecista, flecistka

• flet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From English flat.

flet

1. flat; apartment