fliete

• flēt, flēte, flīet, flȳte

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *flautijǭ. Cognate with Danish fløde (“cream”), Icelandic fleytið (“skimming”), Norwegian fløte (“cream”). Ultimately cognate with Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-, *plew- (“to float, swim, fly”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfli͜yː.te/

flīete f (nominative plural flīetan)

1. cream, skimming, curds
   • Hwít sealt dó on reám oððe góde fléte. ― Put white salt into cream or good skimmings.

Weak feminine (n-stem):

• John R. Clark Hall (1916) “flīete”, 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.