English

fleet race

From fleet + race.

A compound of fleet + race

Proto-Indo-European *plewd- ‘to flow, run’

Proto-Germanic *fleutaną ‘to float, stream’

Old English flēotan ‘to float’

Old English flēot ‘ship’

Middle English flete

English fleet

Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s- ‘to flow’

Proto-Germanic *rēsō ‘a course’

Old Norse rás ‘a running’

Middle English race

English race

Today it means

noun A race in sport sail yachting where a squadron of sailboats race as a fleet, against one another, on the same course, at the same time.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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