flet

1. (dialectal, rare) Floor; bottom; lower surface.
2. (dialectal, rare) A house; home.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: flet

Inherited from Old English: flet

Cognate with Dutch: vlet

Cognate with Low German: Flet

Cognate with German: Fletz

In summary

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.

Synonyms

witch

witch flounder

grey flounder

pole flounder

Torbay sole

Craig fluke

witch sole

Translations

Rotzunge

Hundszunge

plie cynoglosse

passera lingua di cane

hondstong