flocht

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flocht

1. first/third-person singular preterite of flechten

From Middle Scots flocht, from Old Norse *flohte (“flight”), from fljúga (“to fly”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fleuganą (“to fly”). Cognate with English flyht, Icelandic flótti, Old Norse flótti

flocht (plural flochts)

1. commotion; agitation

• “flocht, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
• “flocht, n., v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.