flet
English
Alternative forms
- flette (obsolete)
Etymology
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 *plad- (“flat, broad”). Cognate with Dutch vlet (“vessel”), Low German Flet (“an upper bedroom”), German Fletz, Flötz (“level ground, threshing floor, hallway, set of rooms or benches”). More at flat.
Noun
flet (plural flets)
Danish
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flɛ/
Further reading
- “flet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /flet/, [fɫɛt]
Middle English
Etymology 1
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”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flɛt/
Noun
flet (plural flets)
- the floor, ground
- Cliued mi saule to þi flet. — Northern Verse Psalter, 1400
- a dwelling, habitation, house, cottage, hall
- Þe lorde..Fyndez fire vpon flet, þe freke þer byside. — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 1400
- A (level) piece of ground; a battlefield
- Wiþ four othre meteþ he ... & fuld hem on þe flette. — Sir Firumbras, c1380
Descendants
- English: flet
References
- Middle English Dictionary, flet
Etymology 2
From Old English flēot (“fleet”).
Old English
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *flatją (“floor”), from Proto-Germanic *flataz (“flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *plat- (“flat”). Akin to Old Frisian flet, flette (“dwelling, house”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flet/
Noun
flet n (nominative plural flet)
Declension
Derived terms
- fletræst f. — couch
- fletsittend m. — sitter in hall, courtier, guest.
- fletwerod n. — hall-troop, body-guard
Etymology 2
Likely from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-, *plew- (“to float, swim, fly”); compare Danish fløde (“cream”), Icelandic fleytið (“skimming”), Norwegian fløte (“cream”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fleːt/
Noun
flēt f (nominative plural flēta)
Declension
References
- 1916, John R. Clark, "A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary for the Use of Students", flet et al.
- Bosworth, J. (2010, March 21). An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online (T. N. Toller & Others, Eds.), flet.
Polish

Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flɛt/
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