fløde.
cream (fat from milk)
Meaning & usage
cream (fat from milk)
cream (the best of something)
Where this word comes from
From Old Danish fløthæ, Old Norse flautir f pl (“sour whipped milk”), from Proto-Germanic *flautijǭ, cognate with Norwegian Bokmål fløte, fløyte, Old English flīete f (“cream”). Derived from *fleutaną (“to float”) (Danish flyde).
to flood, be flood tide
Where this word comes from
From Old Norse flœða, from Proto-Germanic *flōdijaną, cognate with Norwegian flø, Swedish flöda, German fluten. Derived from the noun *flōduz (“flood”) (Danish flod).
to raft, float (to transport something by having it flot on a river)
Where this word comes from
From Old Norse fleyta, from Proto-Germanic *flautijaną, cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk fløyte, Norwegian Bokmål fløte, German flößen. A causative of the verb Proto-Germanic *fleutaną (“to float”) (Danish flyde).
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