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

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