valse
English edit
Etymology edit
From French valse. Doublet of waltz.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
valse (plural valses)
Verb edit
valse (third-person singular simple present valses, present participle valsing, simple past and past participle valsed)
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Noun edit
valse c
- indefinite plural of vals
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Adjective edit
valse
- inflection of vals:
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
valse f (plural valses)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Arabic: فَالْس (fāls)
- → English: valse
- → Greek: βαλς (vals)
- → Manx: valse
- → Ottoman Turkish: والس (vals)
- Turkish: vals
- → Persian: والس (vâls)
- → Portuguese: valsa
- → Romanian: vals
- → Russian: вальс (valʹs) (see there for further descendants)
- → Ukrainian: вальс (valʹs)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
valse
- inflection of valser:
Further reading edit
- “valse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Attested since 1850. From French valse or Spanish vals, ultimately from German Walzer, from walzen (“to dance”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
valse m (plural valses)
- waltz
- 1850, Juan López Muñiz, Paisaniña:
- A gaita e o tamboril
Co máis ardente antusiasmo
Tocando unha muiñeiriña
Un valse repenicado
Unha alegre salerosa
Unh'alborada ou fandango- Bagpipe and tabor
With the most burning enthusiasm
Playing a muiñeira,
an allegro waltz
a jovial salerosa,
an alborada or a fandango
- Bagpipe and tabor
References edit
- “valse” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “valse” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “valse” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
valse
- third-person singular past historic of valere
Anagrams edit
Lithuanian edit
Noun edit
valse m
Manx edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French valse, from German Walzer.
Noun edit
valse m (genitive singular valse, plural valseyn)
- waltz (dance)
Derived terms edit
Verb edit
valse (verbal noun valsal)
Norman edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
valse f (plural valses)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
valse m (definite singular valsen, indefinite plural valser, definite plural valsene)
- alternative form of vals (sense 2)
Etymology 2 edit
From vals or valse (roller) and vals (waltz).
Verb edit
valse (imperative vals, present tense valser, passive valses, simple past and past participle valsa or valset, present participle valsende)
References edit
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
valse m (definite singular valsen, indefinite plural valsar, definite plural valsane)
- alternative form of vals (sense 2)
Etymology 2 edit
From vals or valse (roller) and vals (waltz).
Verb edit
valse (present tense valsar, past tense valsa, past participle valsa, passive infinitive valsast, present participle valsande, imperative valse/vals)
Alternative forms edit
References edit
- “valse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
valse
- inflection of valsar:
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
valse m (plural valses)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
valse
- inflection of valsar:
Further reading edit
- “valse”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Yola edit
Adjective edit
valse
- Alternative form of fause
- 1867, “DR. RUSSELL ON THE INHABITANTS AND DIALECT OF THE BARONY OF FORTH”, in APPENDIX[1]:
- Valse Vurlonge,
- False Furlong.
Adverb edit
valse
- Alternative form of fause
- 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, lines 14[2]:
- Thou liest valse co secun that thou an ye thick
- You lie false, said the second, that you and your kid,
References edit
- ^ Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 126
- ^ Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 129