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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, 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.
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Hungarian
Etymology
fal + -t (personal suffix)
Pronunciation
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
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
- indefinite neuter singular of fal
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