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184 fletta,, a scratch; rent; a piece torn off ( fletta,, to strip). For the vowel-sound in may be compared from “bresta”, from “bræða”.

flit,, see ,

flit [flɩt]-boat,, a goods-carrying boat. See ,

flitj [flɩtᶊ],, 1) , to move aside; f. dat støl! move that chair! 2)  , to move oneself; f. a bit! move aside a little! flytja,, to move; transport. For the change tj > tᶊ   > brɩtᶊ,, from “brytja”, > vɩtᶊ, , from “vitja”. — The form [flɩt] has a wider meaning and use: to remove; convey, — flit; also to remove from one dwelling to another ( flit); note  the “to f. (hame) de peats”, to carry home the peats. In is noted down an form of , “flit”, in sense of to move from one place to another, of sheep in the pasture, =  flyta (flytja) and from  flytja; see *,

flitman [flɩtman],, a porter, now mostly of one of a boat’s crew, taking goods ashore from a ship. Doubtless a carrier. flytman, fluttmaður (flutningsmaður), , a carrier, ferryman ( flutningsmaður).

flitr, flitter [flɩtər],, to keep itself afloat with difficulty, to float with deep draught, of a heavily laden boat, the water almost reaching the gunwale; de boat i’ de water . flotra,, to be barely afloat, (in this case, a  of fljóta, to float). i in has doubtless arisen through  of and  fleet,  — , however, in sense of to be in vibrating motion, of air on a warm summer’s day, is most a form of  , flitret, flitteret [flɩt··ərət·],, floating with deep draught, of a boat heavily laden; de boat was very f.. of, ,

fljog,, see $3$,

flo [flō],, 1*) the sea, in fishermen’s tabu- ? 2) a swampy place, morass. Edm.: floe. — “flow (floe)” denotes: a) . a wide mouth of a firth or widening of a bay, a sea-basin, as a place-name in “Scapa Flow”, a wide mouth of a bay, a  outside Scapa Bay (the southern Mainland), ( floe)”,, is found in and in  in the sense of bog; morass, but sense 1 of “flo”, and sense a of  “flow (floe)”, indicate that the word is originally and  Norn, and in these dialects arises from  flói, , a large firth; mouth of a firth; a wide bay; sea-basin, also an expanse of water;  (flói),  (floe) and  (flo, floe) are often used of swamp; bog. — “*flū” ought to have been the development of fló- in , but the  form of (flō) has doubtless been influenced by  and  flow, floe.
 * b) a bog; morass. — “flow

flodrek$1$, flodek,, see.

flodrek$2$ [flȯdrək, flȯd··ərək·], , a flat, slippery little rock on the sea-shore; “de  [flȯdər]” is noted down as the name of a flat skerry, and “ [flød··ərɩstɔŋ·ga]” as the name of a flat, rocky headland. A form [fludər] is still partly a common noun in in the sense of a flat rock, a flat skerry; see further , —  the same word as flyðra,, applied to something flat, in use,  flounder, but in a wider sense. Note “flyðra” in the place-name “Flyðrunev [fli̇̄··rȯnē$mo$v·]”, a flat headland in the Isle Viderø. Further perhaps