a spot or level place, hence a hamlet; _e.g._ Flegg, East and West, in Norfolk; Fleckney (the flat island); Fletton (flat town); Pfaffenfleck (the priest’s hamlet); Amtsfleck (the amptman’s hamlet); Schœnfleck (beautiful hamlet); Marktflecten (the market village); Fladda, Flatholme, Fleckeroe (flat island); Fladstrand (flat strand). [Sidenote: FLEOT, FLIEZ (Teut.), VLIET (Dutch),] a flush of water, a channel or arm of the sea on which vessels may float; _e.g._ Fleet (a river name), in Kirkcudbright; Fleet Loch; Swinefleet (Sweyn’s channel); Saltfleetby (the dwelling on the salt water channel); Shalfleet (shallow channel); Depenfleth (deep channel); Adlingfleet (the channel of the Atheling or noble); Ebbfleet, a place which was a port in the twelfth century, but is now half a mile from the shore; Purfleet, Co. Essex, anc. _Pourteflete_ (the channel of the port); Fleetwood (the wood on the channel of the R. Wyre); Mühlfloss (mill channel); Flushing, in Holland, corrupt. from _Vliessengen_ (the town on the channel of the R. Scheldt). In Normandy this kind of channel takes the form of _fleur_, _e.g._ Barfleur (the summit or projection on the channel); Harfleur or Havrefleur (the harbour on the channel); Biervliet (the fruitful plain on the channel). _Flad_ as a prefix sometimes signifies a place liable to be flooded, as Fladbury, Fledborough. The Lat. _flumen_ (a flowing stream) is akin to these words, along with its derivations in the Romance languages: thus Fiume (on the river), a seaport in Croatia, at the mouth of the R. Fiumara; Fiumicina, a small seaport at the north mouth of the Tiber; Fiume-freddo (the cold stream), in Italy and Sicily; Flims, in Switzerland, Lat. _Ad-flumina_ (at the streams); Fiume-della Fine, near Leghorn, is a corrupt. of its ancient name, _Ad-Fines_ (the river at the boundary). [Sidenote: FÖLD (Hung.),] land; _e.g._ Földvar (land fortress); Alfold (low land); Felföld (high land); Szekel-föld (the land of the Szeklers); Havasel-föld (the land beyond the mountains), which is the Hungarian name for Wallachia. [Sidenote: FONS (Lat.), FONTE (It. and Port.), FONT, FONTAINE (Fr.), FUENTE, and HONTANA (Span.), FUARAN and UARAN (Gadhelic), FFYNNON (Cym.-Cel.),]