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Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English flēotan, from Proto-Germanic *fleutaną.
Pronunciation
Verb
fleten
- To go or change position; to experience movement:
- To float; to stay buoyant on the surface of a liquid.
- To move or propel oneself in or on the water; to swim.
- To move on a vessel or raft across water; to be conveyed over a liquid.
- To stream or flow; to move smoothly as a liquid or fluid.
- (Late Middle English) To spread or propel throughout the air.
- (rare) To drag on the ground (used of clothing)
- (rare) To fly; to move across the sky.
- To wander around; to have no direction or consistency.
- To be ephemeral, fleeting, or temporary; to lack permanence.
- (Late Middle English) To remove scum or cream from a fluid.
- (rare) To have something in great or excessive quantity
- (rare) To lack restraint in speech; to describe excessively.
Usage notes
Strong forms are mainly found in Early Middle English.
Conjugation
| infinitive
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(to) fleten, flete
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present tense
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past tense
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| 1st-person singular
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flete
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fleted, flette, flet
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| 2nd-person singular
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fletest
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fletedest, flettest, flute, flet
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| 3rd-person singular
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fleteth
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fleted, flette, flet
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| subjunctive singular
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flete
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fleted1, flette1, flute1
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| imperative singular
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| plural2
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fleten, flete
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fleteden, fletede, fletten, flette, fluten, flute
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| imperative plural
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fleteth, flete
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| participles
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fletynge, fletende
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fleted, floten
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1Replaced by the indicative in later Middle English.
2Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “flẹ̄ten, v.(1)).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-05.
- “flẹ̄ten, v.(2)).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-05.
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From German flätig.
Adjective
fleten (Cyrillic spelling флетен)
- (Kajkavian) quick
- Synonym: brz
Related terms
Spanish
Verb
fleten
- inflection of fletar:
- third-person plural present subjunctive
- third-person plural imperative