falt

See also: fält, falț, and -falt

English

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• flat

Hungarian

Etymology

fal +‎ -t (personal suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɒlt]
• Hyphenation: falt
• Rhymes: -ɒlt

Verb

falt

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of fal

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

falt

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

falt

1. 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

1. 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)

1. 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

1. indefinite neuter singular of fal

See also

• -faldig
• -falt
• falta
• trefalt

Anagrams

• flat