fol

See also: FOL, fól, föl, føl, fol., and föl-

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔl/

Adjective

fol

1. Alternative form of fou (used only when the following noun starts with a vowel or mute h)

Further reading

• “fol” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Galician

A Galician gaita

Etymology

From Latin follis (“bellows, purse”), cognate with Portuguese fole and Spanish fuelle. With the meaning of "madman", from Old Occitan fol or Old French fol.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔl/

Noun

fol m (plural foles)

1. bag (of bagpipes)
2. bellows
3. bag, sack, goatskin

   home pequeno, fol de veleno

   a little man, a bag of poison

   (proverb)

4. (archaic) a madman

Derived terms

• folía
• foliada
• folión

References

• “fol” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “fol” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “fol” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “fol” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “fol” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fol/

Etymology

From French folle

Noun

fol (masculine fou)

1. (feminine) mad, crazy person

Adjective

fol (masculine fou)

1. (feminine) mad, crazy, insane

   Synonym: pagli

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Middle English

Noun

fol

1. Alternative form of fole (“fool”)

Adjective

fol

1. Alternative form of fole (“foolish”)

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French fol.

Adjective

fol m (feminine singular folle, masculine plural folz, feminine plural folles)

1. mad; insane
2. foolish; silly

Noun

fol m (plural fols, feminine singular folle, feminine plural folles)

1. madman (person who is insane)

Descendants

• French: fol, fou
  • Mauritian Creole: fol

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin follis, follem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔl/
• Rhymes: -ɔl

Adjective

fol m (oblique and nominative feminine singular fole or folle)

1. mad; insane
2. foolish; silly

Related terms

• folie
• folement

Descendants

• Middle French: fol
  • French: fol, fou
    • Mauritian Creole: fol
• Norman: fo m, folle f
• → Middle English: fole, foul, fol, fool, fule, ffuyll, foole, ffoole
  • English: fool
  • Scots: fule, fuil
• → Old Danish: fol
  • Danish: fjols

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Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin follis. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French fol.

Adjective

fol

1. mad; insane; crazy

Related terms

• folamen
• folor

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Volapük

Volapük cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : fol     Ordinal : folid

Etymology

Borrowed from English four.

Numeral

fol

1. (cardinal) four

Derived terms

• folam
• folüm

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔl/

Noun

fol

1. soft mutation of of bol