Contionary:fall

Niemish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fall/

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fallaz. All senses translating as “case” are calques of Latin casus.

Noun

² fàll n.m. hard stem

1. fall, drop (the act of falling or an instance thereof)
2. fall, capture (the act of being seized by enemy forces)
3. fall; the loss of one's innocence, honour, reputation, fortune, etc.
4. case (actual event, situation, or fact)
5. case (instance or event as a topic of study)
6. case (piece of work, e.g. a criminal case)
7. case (legal proceeding)
8. (medicine) case (instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms)
9. (grammar) case (type of inflection of a nominal)

Declension

declension of fàll (mh declension)
	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fàll	fàllan	fàlls	fàllas
genitive	fä̀lls	fä̀lles	fä̀lle	fä̀llse
dative	fàll	fàllum	fàllą	fàllę

Derived terms

• lóchfall "autumn"

Skundavisk

Etymology

From Middle Skundavisk fall, from Old Skundavisk falla, from Halmisk ᚠᚨᛚᛚᚨ (falla), ᚠᚨᛚᛚᚨᛉ (fallaŕ), from Proto-Germanic *fallaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɸaɫ/

Noun

fall m. (class 1, genitive falls, plural falls)

1. case (actual event, situation, grammatical inflection of a word, legal proceeding)

   Ik wit neet, hwat in this besundere fall te doon.

   I don't know what to do in this particular case.

2. fall, drop, decline

Derived terms

• affall
• tofall

Related terms

• fallen