Contionary:fall

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Niemish

Pronunciation

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

Skundavisk

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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