Comment on flat housing
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 week agoflat(n.)
1801, “a story of a house,” from Scottish flat “floor or story of a house,” from Old English flett “a dwelling, hall; floor, ground,” from >Proto-Germanic *flatja-, from suffixed form of PIE root *plat- “to spread.”
The meaning “floor or part of a floor set up as an apartment” is from 1824. Directly from flat (adj.) come the senses “level ground >near water” (late 13c.; late 12c. in place-names); “a flat surface, the flat part of anything” (a sword, etc., late 14c.), and “low shoe” >(1834).