flot

Borrowed from Russian флот (flot), from Dutch vloot (“fleet”).

flot

1. fleet

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
• “flot”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Inherited from Middle French flot (“considerable quantity of poured liquid, stream, flow”), from Old French flot (“mass of moving water, flood, tidal flow”), partly from Old Norse flóð (“stream, river, flood, massive flow of water”); partly from Frankish *flota (“flux, streaming flow”); and partly from Frankish *flōd (“river, flood”); all from Proto-Germanic *flōduz (“river”), *flutōną (“flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *plōw- (“to pour, wash”). Cognate with Old Dutch fluod (“river”), Old High German fluot (“flood”), Old English flōd (“river, flood”), Gothic 𐍆𐌻𐍉𐌳𐌿𐍃 (flōdus, “river, stream”). More at fleuve, flood, flow.

• IPA^(key): /flo/

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flot m (plural flots)

1. (in the plural, literary) waves
   • 2014, Indila, Comme un bateau:

     Un peu comme un bateau / J’avance face à la mer / Je navigue sur les flots

     A bit like a boat / I move through the sea / I sail on the waves

2. stream, flood (large amount)

   J’ai reçu un flot de lettres. ― I received a flood of letters.

3. incoming tide (of the sea); floodtide

• à flot
• à flots

• “flot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from German flott.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɔt/
• Syllabification: flot

flot (not comparable)

1. quickly, rapidly, fast, swiftly

   Synonyms: chùtkò, chiże, drawò

• “flot”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

flot

1. Alternative form of flote (“float, fleet”)

flot (neuter flott, definite singular and plural flote, comparative flotare, indefinite superlative flotast, definite superlative flotaste)

1. Alternative spelling of flòt

flot n (definite singular flotet, indefinite plural flot, definite plural flota)

1. Alternative spelling of flòt

flot f (definite singular flota, indefinite plural floter, definite plural flotene)

1. Alternative spelling of flòt

• loft

• IPA^(key): /flot/

flot n

1. sea

• fluet, flued, fleu, flue

Partly from Old Norse flóð (“stream, river, flood, massive flow of water”); partly from Frankish *flota (“flux, streaming flow”); and partly from Frankish *flōd (“river, flood”); all from Proto-Germanic *flōduz (“river”), Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *plōw- (“to pour, wash”).

flot oblique singular, m (oblique plural floz or flotz, nominative singular floz or flotz, nominative plural flot)

1. wave, billow; surge on the surface of a body of water agitated by winds
2. a large expanse of moving water, flood; river
3. current, stream

• floc

• Middle French: flot
  • French: flot
• Picard: flôt (Athois)

• IPA^(key): /flɔt/

flot

1. genitive plural of flota