Neuter

Fleet

Meaning

  1. (neuter, strong) a watercourse through marshland
  2. (neuter, strong) a kind of city canal similar to the Dutch gracht, found in Hamburg and some other northern German cities

Concepts

River Fleet

Frequency

44k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/fleːt/
Etymology

In summary

From German Low German and Middle Low German vlēt, from Old Saxon fliot, from Proto-West Germanic *fleut, from Proto-Germanic *fleutą (“stream, river”). Cognate to Dutch vliet, English fleet.

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