falt
See also: fält, falț, and -falt
English
Noun
falt (plural falts)
- 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, p. 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.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 205:
Anagrams
- flat
Hungarian
Etymology
fal + -t (personal suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfɒlt]
- Hyphenation: falt
- Rhymes: -ɒlt
Verb
falt
- third-person singular indicative past indefinite of fal
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
falt
- inflection of falle:
- simple past
- past participle
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
falt
- neuter singular of fal
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *falþō, related to the verb *falþaną (“to fold”), whence also Old English feald, Old Norse faldr.
Noun
falt f
- fold
Descendants
- Middle High German: valt, valte
- Cimbrian: falda
- German: Falte
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish folt. Cognates include Irish folt and Manx folt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fal̪ˠt̪/
- Hyphenation: falt
Noun
falt m (genitive singular fuilt, no plural)
- hair, specifically that on the head.
- Gruagach Òg an Fhuilt Bhàin ― Young Maiden of the Fair Hair
References
- Colin Mark (2003), “falt”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 279
Swedish
Adjective
falt
- absolute indefinite neuter singular of fal.
See also
- -faldig
- -falt
- falta
- trefalt
Anagrams
- flat