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Flat or Flatt. 



Icel. flatr, flat, even, level, smooth ; Suio-Gotli. flat, platt, 

 planus, latus, sed altitudinis expers ; Dan. fl^ade ; Sw. flata ; Al. 

 flata, flalxli ; Ger. flach, platt ; Dut. vlalc, plat ; Fl. plat. 



"A.-S. flett, a dwelling, house, chamber, bed." Bosworth. 

 Hence probably a house in flats, or stories. 



^' Flet,flatt, area, fundus, item aula, csenaculum." Lye Sup, 

 " Flatt, bassus vel planus." Prompt. Parv. 



Wei. gwastad, level, plain; Gael, comhnard, reidhlean; Manx 

 liahagid, flatness, chenrcea - strah, faaice, plain; Corn, compos, 

 straight, even, right ; Bret, compoz or ko^npoez, flat. Le Gonidec. 



Jjsd,. planus, latus et depressus; li. pianura, piatto ; Sp. llanura, 

 llano, piano ; Port, pak piano, chato, cMo, piano. 



Pr. plaine, plat, terrain plat. 



^^ Platt, latus et depressus. Plats, area, manifesta origo est a 

 Gr. TrXariJS." Ihre. 



" Flat, a field ; this is used in a sense somewhat different from 

 the English word." Jamieson. 



" Flat, a hollow in a field, Glouc, any very level smooth 

 place." Halliwell. 



Skeat states that its connection with Gr. TrXari;?, broad, has 

 not been made out. It is more likely connected with the Dutch 

 and German, and the Greek TrAa^ a flat surface, (stem, 7rXa/c) — 

 plain, level, smooth. 



Examples : — 



Osmon Plat — Osmond's or Ostman's Plat. See Croft. 



Harbour Platt — " Harbour, sporting term for the resting place 

 of a deer. Plat=ia level piece of ground, a plain. Harbour Plat 

 =deer-rest, plain." Bell. 



South Plats. 



Plats "Wood — wood on the flat or level. 



Plat — same as flat. 



An originally Greek, Latin, or Icelandic, Scandinavian, and 

 Teutonic word, and found in some Latin tongues ; not in Celtic 

 dialects. 



