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falt

See also: fält, falț, and -falt

English

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Noun

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falt (plural falts)

  1. An old English measure of wheat in London containing 9 bushels.
    • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 205:
      ...1 Hen. V, cap. 10... This statute also denounces the London falt, which contained nine bushels, and a practice which had grown up in the city of making sellers of corn not only submit to this extra measure, but to a tax for measuring corn.

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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fal +‎ -t (personal suffix)

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Verb

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falt

  1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of fal

Norwegian Bokmål

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Verb

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falt

  1. inflection of falle:
    1. simple past
    2. past participle

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Adjective

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falt

  1. neuter singular of fal

Old High German

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *falþō, related to the verb *falþaną (“to fold”), whence also Old English feald, Old Norse faldr.

Noun

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falt f

  1. fold

Descendants

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  • Middle High German: valt, valte

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish folt. Cognates include Irish folt and Manx folt.

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falt m (genitive singular fuilt, no plural)

  1. hair, specifically that on the head.
    Gruagach Òg an Fhuilt Bhàin ― Young Maiden of the Fair Hair

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  1. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

Further reading

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  • Colin Mark (2003) “falt”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 279

Swedish

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Adjective

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falt

  1. indefinite neuter singular of fal

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