flot
Old French
noun
Definitions
- wave, billow; surge on the surface of a body of water agitated by winds
- a large expanse of moving water, flood; river
- current, stream
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Norse flóð (flood, massive flow of water, stream, river) borrowed from Frankish *flota (streaming flow, flux), *flōd, *flōdu (flood, river) derived from Proto-Germanic *flōduz (river), *flutōną (float, swim, flow) derived from Proto-Indo-European *plōw- (pour, wash).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*plōw-
Gloss
pour, wash
Concept
Semantic Field
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Ontological Category
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Cognates and derived terms
- flot French
- *plew- Proto-Indo-European
- *plewd- Proto-Indo-European
- *pléh₃tus Proto-Indo-European
- *plōtus Proto-Indo-European
- *plōw- Proto-Indo-European
- flo Norwegian Bokmål
- flod Norwegian Bokmål
- *flutrōną Proto-Germanic
- *flutōną Proto-Germanic
- *flōaną Proto-Germanic
- *flōduz Proto-Germanic
- flod Swedish
- flod Norwegian Nynorsk
- flod Old English
- flotian Old English
- flēot Old English
- flōd Old English
- flóð Old Norse
- flóðr Old Norse
- flōi Old Norse
- fluot Old High German
- flotacar Ido
- fliot Norman
- flot Middle French
- 𐍆𐌻𐍉𐌳𐌿𐍃 Gothic
- *flōdu gmw-pro
- *floton Old Dutch
- fluot Old Dutch
- flod Old Saxon
- *flota Frankish
- *flotōn Frankish
- *flōd, *flōdu Frankish
- flotōn Frankish
- flōd Old Frisian
- floth Old Danish