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Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *fallan. Cognate with Old Frisian falla, Old Saxon fallan, Old Dutch fallan, Old High German fallan, Old Norse falla.
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feallan
- to fall
- late 10th century, Ælfric, "Saint Sebastian, Martyr"
Hwæt ða nicostratus wearð swiðe afyrht þa ða he þæt wundor ge-seah on his wife gedon and feol adune sona to sebastianes fotum...- Then Nicostratus was greatly afraid, when he saw the miracle wrought on his wife, and straightway fell down at Sebastian's feet,...
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