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The word flute first entered the English language during the Middle English period, as floute ,, or else flowte, flo ( y ) te, possibly from Old French flaute and from Old Provençal flaüt, or else from Old French fleüte, flaüte, flahute via Middle High German floite or Danish fluit.

Attempts to trace the word back to a Latin root have been pronounced " phonologically impossible " or " inadmissable ".

The first known use of the word flute was in the 14th century.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this was in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Hous of Fame, ca.

1384.