fol

Albanian

Etymology

Imperative present form (2nd pers. singular) of flas (“to speak”). See flas for etymology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

fol (aorist fola, participle folur)

1. Speak!

Conjugation

Related terms

• flas
• fjalë
• fjalim
• fjalor
• folje

Chinese

Alternative forms

• 科 (fo¹)

Etymology

Clipping of English follow.

Pronunciation

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

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 , 2012.

Galician

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

References

• “fol” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “fol” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “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.

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French folle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fol/

Noun

fol (masculine fou)

1. (feminine) mad, crazy person

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

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
  • Louisiana Creole: fou

Old French

Etymology

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

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

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 -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

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

Derived terms

Related terms

References

Further reading

• “fol”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “fol”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1606

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English four.

Numeral

fol

1. four

Derived terms

• folam
• folüm

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔl/

Noun

fol

1. soft mutation of of bol

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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