flyte
English[edit]
Noun[edit]
flyte (plural flytes)
- 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.
Verb[edit]
flyte (third-person singular simple present flytes, present participle flyting, simple past and past participle flyted)
- 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.
Anagrams[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Verb[edit]
flyte
- Alternative form of flyten
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
flyte (imperative flyt, present tense flyter, simple past fløt or fløyt, past participle flytt, present participle flytende)
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
- flyt (noun)
References[edit]
- “flyte” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
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”).
Alternative forms[edit]
Verb[edit]
flyte (present tense flyt, past tense flaut, supine flote, past participle floten, present participle flytande, imperative flyt)
- (intransitive) to float
- (intransitive) to flow, stream
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
- å fløyte (causative)
Etymology 2[edit]
From Old Norse flýta, a factitive of the adjective fljótr (Modern Norwegian Nynorsk fljot and fløt).
Alternative forms[edit]
- flyta (a-infinitive)
Verb[edit]
flyte (present tense flyter, past tense flytte, past participle flytt, passive infinitive flytast, present participle flytande, imperative flyt)
- (transitive) to hurry
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “flyte” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams[edit]
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- English verbs
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English verbs
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål verbs
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *plewd-
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk verbs
- Norwegian Nynorsk strong verbs
- Norwegian Nynorsk class 2 strong verbs
- Norwegian Nynorsk intransitive verbs
- Norwegian Nynorsk weak verbs
- Norwegian Nynorsk transitive verbs