Fallsucht

German

Etymology

From fallen (“to fall”) +‎ Sucht (here in the old sense “illness, disease”), thus the same as English falling sickness, Dutch vallende ziekte or Swedish fallandesot. Compare also Arabic صَرْع (ṣarʕ), Estonian langetõbi, Polish padaczka, Czech padoucnice, Russian паду́чая (padúčaja) Serbo-Croatian pȁdavica, all equally derived from a word for “to fall”. From the fits which cast the patients to the ground.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfalˌzʊχt/
• Hyphenation: Fall‧sucht

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

Fallsucht f (genitive Fallsucht, no plural)

1. (archaic) epilepsy

   Synonyms: Epilepsie, (obsolete) Schwerenot

Declension

Declension of Fallsucht [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Fallsucht
genitive	einer	der	Fallsucht
dative	einer	der	Fallsucht
accusative	eine	die	Fallsucht

Derived terms

• fallsüchtig

Further reading

• “Fallsucht” in Duden online
• “Fallsucht” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache