folt

Native word, probably from fal (“to devour”) +‎ -t (noun-forming suffix), presumably with the original sense “part, piece”. Doublet of falat (“bite”).^[1]

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• Rhymes: -olt

folt (plural foltok)

1. stain, spot, blotch
2. patch
3. blemish

• folt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From Old Irish folt, from Proto-Celtic *woltos (compare Cornish gols, Old Breton guolt, Welsh gwallt), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₂- (compare English wold, Lithuanian váltis (“oat awn”), Serbo-Croatian vlȃt (“ear (of wheat)”), Ancient Greek λάσιος (lásios, “hairy”)).

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /fˠɞl̪ˠt̪ˠ/^[1], /fˠɞl̪ˠh/

folt m (genitive singular foilt, nominative plural foilt)

1. hair (of head); locks, tresses

• claonfholt m (“flowing locks”)
• folt bé (“maidenhair”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “folt”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Old Irish folt.

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folt m (genitive singular fuilt, plural fuilt)

1. hair

   Ta’n folt echey ny hassoo er.

   His hair sticks up.

   Ta’n folt echey tuittym magh.

   His hair is falling out.

   Ta’n folt eck cass-lhoobagh.

   Her hair is thickly curled.

   Ta’n folt eck sheeley sheese y dreeym eck.

   Her hair is hanging down her back.

   Va’n folt echey baarit dy lhome.

   His hair was cut close.

   Va’n folt echey tuittym neose harrish e gheayltyn.

   His hair fell over his shoulders.

• folet

Borrowed from Old French folet (“fool”).

folt (plural folts)

1. a fool

• folten, foltin
• folthēd, foltheed
• foltisch

From Proto-Celtic *woltos (compare Cornish gols, Old Breton guolt, Welsh gwallt), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₂- (compare English wold, Lithuanian váltis (“oat awn”), Serbo-Croatian vlȃt (“ear (of wheat)”), Ancient Greek λάσιος (lásios, “hairy”)).

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folt m (genitive fuilt, nominative plural fuilt)

1. hair

• Irish: folt
• Manx: folt
• Scottish Gaelic: falt

Borrowed from Hungarian folt.

folt n (plural folturi)

1. patch
2. rag

Borrowed from English volt, from the name of the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.

• IPA^(key): /vɔlt/

folt m (plural foltau or foltiau, not mutable)

1. (physics) volt

• foltedd (“voltage”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “folt”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies