fol

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

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɔl]

Verb

fol

1. second-person singular imperative of flas

Chinese

Alternative forms

• 科 (fo¹)

Etymology

Clipping of English follow.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fo¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fo¹
    • Yale: fō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fo¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɔː⁵⁵/

Noun

fol

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, social media) follower count

Synonyms

• follow

Verb

fol

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, social media) to follow

Synonyms

• follow

Derived terms

• unfol

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 Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

A Galician gaita

Etymology

Inherited 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

• afoletar
• encher o fol
• folgos

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “fol”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fol”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fol”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “fol”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fol”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

Derived from French folle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fol/

Noun

fol (masculine fou)

1. (feminine) madwoman (a mad, crazy female)

Adjective

fol (masculine fou)

1. (feminine) mad, crazy, insane

   Synonym: pagli

Middle English

Noun

fol

1. alternative form of fole (“fool”)

Adjective

fol

1. alternative form of fole (“foolish”)

Middle French

Etymology

Inherited 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 (a person who is insane)

Descendants

• French: fol, fou
  • Louisiana Creole: fou

Old Dutch

Alternative forms

• ful

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz.

Adjective

fol

1. full

Inflection

Declension of fol (a-stem)

strong declension
case	masculine	feminine	neuter	plural
nominative	fol	fol	fol	folla, folle
accusative	follan, follen	folla	fol	folla, folle
genitive	folles	follero	folles	follero
dative	follin, follemo	follero	follin, follemo	follon
weak declension
case	masculine	feminine	neuter	plural
nominative	follo	folla	folla	follon
accusative	follon	follon	folla	follon
genitive	follin	follon	follin	follono
dative	follin	follon	follin	follon

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: vol
  • Dutch: vol
    • Afrikaans: vol
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: folo
    • Jersey Dutch: vol
    • Negerhollands: vol
    • → Caribbean Javanese: fol
    • → Indonesian: pol
  • Limburgish: vól
  • West Flemish: vul

References

• “fol”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin follis, follem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔl/
• 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
    • Louisiana Creole: fou
• Norman: fo m, folle f
• → Middle English: fole, foul, fol, fool, fule, ffuyll, foole, ffoole
  • English: fool
  • Geordie English: fuil, feul
  • Scots: fule, fuil
  • → Welsh: ffôl
• → Old Danish: fol
  • Danish: fjols

Old Occitan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin follis. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French fol.

Adjective

fol

1. mad; insane; crazy

Related terms

• folamen
• folor

Descendants

• Occitan: hòu, fòl, fòu

Polabian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Middle High German vol

German vollbor.

Polabian fol

Borrowed from German voll. Compare Low German vull, Dutch vol, English full, Danish fuld, Swedish full.

Adverb

fol

1. full

   Mon jă fol

   The moon is full

References

• Polański, Kazimierz (1994) “fol”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 6 (un – źornü), Warszawa: Energeia, →ISBN, page 1095
• Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “fol”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 61
• Olesch, Reinhold (1973) “vol”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes 3: T – Z, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 1295

Russenorsk

Etymology

Inherited from Norwegian Nynorsk full, either through its northern dialectal form (see foill), either through Russian accent (in both cases the vowel changes into [u]-sound with different length).

Pronunciation

Possible examples:

• IPA^(key): /fuʎ/ (Northern Norwegian accent)
• IPA^(key): /fulʲ/ (Russian accent)

Adjective

fol

1. full

   Moja fol Maga

   My stomach is full

References

• Ingvild Broch, Ernst H. Jahr (1984) Russenorsk: Et pidginspråk i Norge [Russenorsk: A pidgin language in Norway], 2 edition, Oslo: Novus Forlag

Spanish

Noun

fol

1. abbreviation of folio

Turkish

Alternative forms

• fala, hal, hol, höl, holu (dialectal)

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish فول (fol, “a nest-egg”), from Greek φώλι (fóli, “the act or place of incubation, nest”), from Ancient Greek φωλεός (phōleós, “den, animal burrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoɫ/
• Hyphenation: fol

Noun

fol (definite accusative folu, plural follar)

1. (colloquial) An egg or egg-shaped object placed at a spot for a hen to lay her eggs there; a nest egg.

Declension

Declension of fol

singular plural nominative fol follar definite accusative folu folları dative fola follara locative folda follarda ablative foldan follardan genitive folun folların Possessive forms nominative singular plural 1st singular folum follarım 2nd singular folun folların 3rd singular folu folları 1st plural folumuz follarımız 2nd plural folunuz follarınız 3rd plural folları folları definite accusative singular plural 1st singular folumu follarımı 2nd singular folunu follarını 3rd singular folunu follarını 1st plural folumuzu follarımızı 2nd plural folunuzu follarınızı 3rd plural follarını follarını dative singular plural 1st singular foluma follarıma 2nd singular foluna follarına 3rd singular foluna follarına 1st plural folumuza follarımıza 2nd plural folunuza follarınıza 3rd plural follarına follarına locative singular plural 1st singular folumda follarımda 2nd singular folunda follarında 3rd singular folunda follarında 1st plural folumuzda follarımızda 2nd plural folunuzda follarınızda 3rd plural follarında follarında ablative singular plural 1st singular folumdan follarımdan 2nd singular folundan follarından 3rd singular folundan follarından 1st plural folumuzdan follarımızdan 2nd plural folunuzdan follarınızdan 3rd plural follarından follarından genitive singular plural 1st singular folumun follarımın 2nd singular folunun follarının 3rd singular folunun follarının 1st plural folumuzun follarımızın 2nd plural folunuzun follarınızın 3rd plural follarının follarının

Derived terms

• fol yok yumurta yok (“don't count your chickens before they hatch”)
• folluk

Related terms

• pifoli

See also

• çiftlik
• tavuk
• yumurta
• yumurtlamak
• yuva

Further reading

• “fol”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “fol”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1606
• Tzitzilis, Christos (1987) Griechische Lehnwörter im Türkischen (mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der anatolischen Dialekte) (Schriften der Balkan-Kommission, philologische Abteilung; 33)‎^[2] (in German), Vienna: Academy Press, § 581, pages 135–136

Volapük

Volapük cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : fol     Ordinal : folid

Etymology

Borrowed from English four.

Numeral

fol

1. four
   • 1932, Arie de Jong, Leerboek der Wereldtaal, page 23:

     Folna fol binos degmäl.

     Four times four is sixteen.

Derived terms

• folam
• folüm

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔl/

Noun

fol

1. soft mutation of of bol

West Frisian

Etymology

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Adjective

fol

1. full (not empty)
2. full of
3. whole, full, complete

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• folwoeksen

Further reading

• “fol”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011