fallow
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From Middle English falow, from Old English fealh 'fallow land', from Proto-Germanic *falhaz (cf. East Frisian falge, German Felge), from Proto-Indo-European *polk̑éhₐ 'arable land' (cf. Gaulish olca, Russian polosá).
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fallow (countable and uncountable; plural fallows)
- (agriculture, uncountable) Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
- (agriculture, uncountable) Uncultivated land.
- (agriculture, obsolete, countable) An area of fallow land.
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fallow
- (of agricultural land) Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
- Inactive; undeveloped.
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fallow (third-person singular simple present fallows, present participle fallowing, simple past and past participle fallowed)
- (transitive) To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.
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[edit] Etymology 2
From Middle English falwe, from Old English fealu, from Proto-Germanic *falwaz (cf. West Frisian feal, Dutch vaal, German falb, fahl), from Proto-Indo-European *polʷos (cf. Lithuanian pal̃vas 'sallow, wan', Serbo-Croatian plâv 'blond, blue', Ancient Greek πολιός (poliós) 'grey'), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- 'pale'.
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fallow (comparative more fallow, superlative most fallow)
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- “fallow” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
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