fliete
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Old English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]flīete f (nominative plural flīetan)
- cream, skimming, curds
- Hwít sealt dó on reám oððe góde fléte. ― Put white salt into cream or good skimmings.
Declension
[edit]Weak:
singular | plural | |
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nominative | flīete | flīetan |
accusative | flīetan | flīetan |
genitive | flīetan | flīetena |
dative | flīetan | flīetum |
References
[edit]- John R. Clark Hall (1916) “flīete”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “flet”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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- Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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