Native word, probably from fal (“to devour”) + -t (noun-forming suffix), presumably with the original sense “part, piece”. Doublet of falat (“bite”).
folt (plural foltok)
singular | plural | |
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nominative | folt | foltok |
accusative | foltot | foltokat |
dative | foltnak | foltoknak |
instrumental | folttal | foltokkal |
causal-final | foltért | foltokért |
translative | folttá | foltokká |
terminative | foltig | foltokig |
essive-formal | foltként | foltokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | foltban | foltokban |
superessive | folton | foltokon |
adessive | foltnál | foltoknál |
illative | foltba | foltokba |
sublative | foltra | foltokra |
allative | folthoz | foltokhoz |
elative | foltból | foltokból |
delative | foltról | foltokról |
ablative | folttól | foltoktól |
non-attributive possessive – singular |
folté | foltoké |
non-attributive possessive – plural |
foltéi | foltokéi |
possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
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1st person sing. | foltom | foltjaim |
2nd person sing. | foltod | foltjaid |
3rd person sing. | foltja | foltjai |
1st person plural | foltunk | foltjaink |
2nd person plural | foltotok | foltjaitok |
3rd person plural | foltjuk | foltjaik |
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”)).
folt m (genitive singular foilt, nominative plural foilt)
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radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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folt | fholt | bhfolt |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
folt m (genitive singular fuilt, plural fuilt)
radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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folt | olt | volt |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Borrowed from Old French folet (“fool”).
folt (plural folts)
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”)).
folt m (genitive fuilt, nominative plural fuilt)
singular | dual | plural | |
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nominative | folt | foltL | fuiltL |
vocative | fuilt | foltL | fultuH |
accusative | foltN | foltL | fultuH |
genitive | fuiltL | folt | foltN |
dative | foltL | foltaib | foltaib |
radical | lenition | nasalization |
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folt | ḟolt | folt pronounced with /β̃-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
folt n (plural folturi)
singular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | folt | foltul | folturi | folturile | |
genitive-dative | folt | foltului | folturi | folturilor | |
vocative | foltule | folturilor |
Borrowed from English volt, from the name of the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.
folt m (plural foltau or foltiau, not mutable)