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German
Pronunciation
Verb
flocht
- first/third-person singular preterite of flechten
Scots
Etymology
From Middle Scots flocht, from Old Norse *flohte (“flight”), from fljúga (“to fly”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fleuganą (“to fly”). Cognate with English flyht, Icelandic flótti, Old Norse flótti
Noun
flocht (plural flochts)
- commotion; agitation
Further reading
- “flocht, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A Craigie, A J Aitken , editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
- “flocht, n., v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W Grant and D D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.