# flet
## English
### Alternative forms

* fleet, 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 *pleth₂- (“flat, broad”). Cognate with Dutch vlet (“flat-bottomed vessel, dory”), 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)
* (rare or dialectal) Floor; bottom; lower surface.
* (rare or dialectal) A house; home.

### Anagrams

* Felt, felt, left, FELT, TEFL, Left

## Albanian
### Verb

flet
* second-person singular present indicative of flas
* third-person singular present indicative of flas

## Danish
### Verb

flet
* imperative of flette

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch vlete.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /flɛ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

flet m (plural flets)
* flounder (fish)

### Further reading

* “flet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *flatją.

### Noun

flet n (genitive singular flets, nominative plural flet)
* bunk
    Synonym: koja

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “flet” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /flet/, [fɫ̪ɛt̪]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /flet/, [flɛt̪]

### Verb

flet
* third-person singular present active indicative of fleō

## 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: /flɛt/

#### Noun

flet (plural flets)
* the floor, ground
** c. 1400, Northern Verse Psalter:Cliued mi saule to þi flet.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* 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

* “flet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

flet
* Alternative form of flete (“fleet”)

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* fled, flett

### 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: /flet/

#### Noun

flet n (nominative plural flet)
* the floor, ground
** Heó on flet gecrong ― She sank to the ground.
* a dwelling, habitation, house, cottage, hall
** Gif ðæt flet geblódgad wyrþe. ― If the house be stained with blood.

##### Declension

Strong a-stem:

##### Derived terms

* fletræst (“couch”)
* fletsittend (“sitter in hall, courtier, guest”)
* fletwerod (“hall-troop, body-guard”)

##### Descendants

* Middle English: flet
** English: flet

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *flautiz.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fleːt/

#### Noun

flēt f (nominative plural flēta)
* Alternative form of flīete

##### Declension

Strong i-stem:

##### References

* John R. Clark Hall (1916) “flet”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
* Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “flet”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *flatją. Related to flatr.

### Noun

flet n
* the raised flooring along the side walls of a hall (to sit or lie on) together with the benches thereon

#### Declension
### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “flet”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German floit, flöute, vloite, from Old French fleute, from Old Occitan flaut.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈflɛt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛt
* Syllabification: flet

### Noun

flet m inan (diminutive flecik)
* flute (woodwind instrument)
* recorder (musical instrument of the woodwind family; a type of fipple flute, a simple internal duct flute)
    Synonym: flet prosty
* (historical) narrow and tall winecup

#### Derived terms

* fletowy
* flecista
* flecistka
* flet piccolo
* fletnia
* flecić impf

#### Related terms

* flecikowy
* fletnia Pana
* fletniarz
* fletnista
* fletnistka

### Further reading

* flet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* flet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

From Dutch flit, a genericized use of the brand name FLIT.

### Noun

flet
* liquid insecticide
* spray gun

### Verb

flet
* to spray

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English flat.

### Noun

flet
* flat; apartment