fleute
See also: fleüte
Middle English
Noun
fleute
- Alternative form of floute
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French fleute, from Old Occitan flaut.
Noun
fleute f (plural fleutes)
- flute (musical instrument)
Descendants
- French: flûte, flute
- → Italian: flute, flûte
- → Luxembourgish: Flütt
- → Walloon: flûte
- Norman: fliûte (Jersey)
Old French
Alternative forms
- flaute, fleüte
Etymology
From Old Occitan flaut.
Noun
fleute f (oblique plural fleutes, nominative singular fleute, nominative plural fleutes)
- flute (musical instrument)
Descendants
- Middle French: fleute
- French: flûte, flute
- → Italian: flute, flûte
- → Luxembourgish: Flütt
- → Walloon: flûte
- Norman: fliûte (Jersey)
- French: flûte, flute
- → Middle Dutch: floite
- Dutch: fluit
- Afrikaans: fluit
- → Arawak: flauta
- → English: fluyt
- → Indonesian: peluit
- → Indonesian: Pluit
- → Papiamentu: flùit, fleit
- → Sranan Tongo: froyti
- → Saramaccan: foloíti
- → Middle High German: vloite
- German: Flöte (see there for further descendants)
- Dutch: fluit
- → Middle English: floute, floyte, flowte, fleute, flote, floite, fflott, ffloute, ffleute
- English: flute
- → Irish: fliúit
- → Welsh: ffliwt
- Scots: fluit
- English: flute
- → Middle Low German: flöite, vloite
- German Low German: Fleut, Fleit
- → Danish: fløjte
- → Icelandic: flauta
- → Estonian: flööt
- → Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: fløyte
- Norwegian Nynorsk: fløyte
- → Saterland Frisian: Floite
- → Swedish: flöjt