falt
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Noun edit
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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falt
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Verb edit
falt
- inflection of falle:
- simple past
- past participle
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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falt
Old High German edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *falþō, related to the verb *falþaną (“to fold”), whence also Old English feald, Old Norse faldr.
Noun edit
falt f
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Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish folt. Cognates include Irish folt and Manx folt.
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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 edit
- Colin Mark (2003) “falt”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 279
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Adjective edit
falt