flet

• fleet, 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 *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.

flet (plural flets)

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

• Felt, felt, left, FELT, TEFL, Left

flet

1. second-person singular present indicative of flas
2. third-person singular present indicative of flas

flet

1. imperative of flette

Borrowed from Dutch vlete.

• IPA^(key): /flɛ/

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flet m (plural flets)

1. flounder (fish)

• “flet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Proto-Germanic *flatją.

flet n (genitive singular flets, nominative plural flet)

1. bunk

   Synonym: koja

• “flet” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfɫɛt]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈflɛt̪]

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
   • c. 1400, Northern Verse Psalter:

     Cliued mi saule to þi flet.

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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

• “flet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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.

Strong a-stem:

• fletræst (“couch”)
• fletsittend (“sitter in hall, courtier, guest”)
• fletwerod (“hall-troop, body-guard”)

• Middle English: flet
  • English: flet

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *flautiz.

• IPA^(key): /fleːt/

flēt f (nominative plural flēta)

1. alternative form of flīete

Strong i-stem:

• John R. Clark Hall (1916) “flet”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “flet”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[2], second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

From Proto-Germanic *flatją. Related to flatr.

flet n

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

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “flet”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Borrowed from Middle High German floit, flöute, vloite, from Old French fleute, from Old Occitan flaut.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Syllabification: flet

flet m inan (diminutive flecik)

1. flute (woodwind instrument)
2. recorder (musical instrument of the woodwind family; a type of fipple flute, a simple internal duct flute)

   Synonym: flet prosty

3. (historical) narrow and tall winecup

• flet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• flet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Dutch flit, a genericized use of the brand name FLIT.

flet

1. liquid insecticide
2. spray gun

flet

1. to spray

From English flat.

flet

1. flat; apartment