fleten

• fleoten, flete, fleetyn, fleete

From Old English flēotan, from Proto-Germanic *fleutaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfleːtən/

fleten

1. To go or change position; to experience movement:
   1. To float; to stay buoyant on the surface of a liquid.
   2. To move or propel oneself in or on the water; to swim.
   3. To move on a vessel or raft across water; to be conveyed over a liquid.
   4. To stream or flow; to move smoothly as a liquid or fluid.
   5. (Late Middle English) To spread or propel throughout the air.
   6. (rare) To drag on the ground (used of clothing)
   7. (rare) To fly; to move across the sky.
2. To wander around; to have no direction or consistency.
3. To be ephemeral, fleeting, or temporary; to lack permanence.
4. (Late Middle English) To remove scum or cream from a fluid.
5. (rare) To have something in great or excessive quantity
6. (rare) To lack restraint in speech; to describe excessively.

Strong forms are mainly found in Early Middle English.

• flete (all ME senses)

• English: fleet
• Scots: fleet

• “flẹ̄ten, v.(1)).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 October 2018.
• “flẹ̄ten, v.(2)).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 October 2018.

From German flätig +‎ -en, with the German adjective-forming suffix -ig replaced by Serbo-Croatian -en.

fleten (Cyrillic spelling флетен)

1. (Kajkavian) quick

   Synonym: brz

• fletno

fleten

1. inflection of fletar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative