Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryFloor; bottom; lower surface. · A house; home.
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-West Germanic *flati, 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.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionfletenm · floor of a house; house
- Inherited-form mentionfletang
- Inherited-form mention*flatigmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*flatjągem-pro · a flat or level surface, level ground, floor, hallway
- Derivation mention*pleth₂-ine-pro · flat, broad
- Cognate mentionvletnl · flat-bottomed vessel, dory
- Cognate mentionFletnds · an upper bedroom
- Cognate mentionFletzde
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