flyte

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English

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Noun

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flyte (plural flytes)

  1. Alternative spelling of flite
    • 1898, George Saintsbury, A Short History of English Literature:
      The bird of Pallas has also a good flyte on the moral side [] in his suggestion that the principal effect of the nightingale's song is to make women false to their husbands.

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flyte (third-person singular simple present flytes, present participle flyting, simple past and past participle flyted)

  1. Alternative spelling of flite
    • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
      It was plain she was in the worst of tempers. She flyted on the lass till the poor thing's cheek paled.

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Middle English

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Verb

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flyte

  1. Alternative form of flyten

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Old Norse fljóta.

Verb

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flyte (imperative flyt, present tense flyter, simple past fløt or fløyt, past participle flytt, present participle flytende)

  1. to float
  2. to flow; run
  3. to overflow

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse fljóta, from Proto-Germanic *fleutaną. Cognates include English fleet, Dutch vlieten, German fließen, Icelandic fljóta, Faroese flóta, and Danish flyde. Ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *plewd- (to flow, run).

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flyte (present tense flyt, past tense flaut, supine flote, past participle floten, present participle flytande, imperative flyt)

  1. (intransitive) to float
  2. (intransitive) to flow, stream
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Etymology 2

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From Old Norse flýta, a factitive of the adjective fljótr (Modern Norwegian Nynorsk fljot and fløt).

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flyte (present tense flyter, past tense flytte, past participle flytt, passive infinitive flytast, present participle flytande, imperative flyt)

  1. (transitive) to hurry
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