flyte

English

Noun

flyte (plural flytes)

  1. Alternative spelling of flite
    • Saintsbury
      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

Anagrams


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

References


Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

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

  1. Alternative form of flyta

Derived terms

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