vlot
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vlɔt/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɔt
Etymology 1
From earlier vlot (“flowing; fluent; fluid”), from the Middle Dutch phrases int vlot, ant vlot (“on water; floating”); see vlieten. Compare German flott (from Middle Dutch).
Adjective
vlot (comparative vlotter, superlative vlotst)
Declension
| Declension of vlot | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | vlot | |||
| inflected | vlotte | |||
| comparative | vlotter | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | vlot | vlotter | het vlotst het vlotste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | vlotte | vlottere | vlotste |
| n. sing. | vlot | vlotter | vlotste | |
| plural | vlotte | vlottere | vlotste | |
| definite | vlotte | vlottere | vlotste | |
| partitive | vlots | vlotters | — | |
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Caribbean Javanese: flot
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch vlot, ultimately from a conflation of Proto-Germanic *flutą (“flow; stream”) and Proto-Germanic *flutô (“small boat”). Cognate with West Frisian flot (“raft”), German Low German Flott, Flött (“raft”), Old English flot (“sea”), Old English flota (“ship; vessel; fleet”), Old Norse flot (“that which floats; grease”), Icelandic floti (“fleet”). Also related to German Floß (“raft”), Old English flīete (“that which floats; boat; raft; cream”), Danish flåde (“raft”), Swedish flotte (“raft”).
Noun
vlot n (plural vlotten, diminutive vlotje n)
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
vlot
- inflection of vlotten:
- first/second/third-person singular present indicative
- imperative