folt

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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Native word, probably from fal (to devour) +‎ -t (noun-forming suffix), presumably with the original sense “part, piece”. Doublet of falat (bite).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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folt (plural foltok)

  1. stain, spot, blotch
  2. patch
  3. blemish

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative folt foltok
accusative foltot foltokat
dative foltnak foltoknak
instrumental folttal foltokkal
causal-final foltért foltokért
translative folttá foltokká
terminative foltig foltokig
essive-formal foltként foltokként
essive-modal
inessive foltban foltokban
superessive folton foltokon
adessive foltnál foltoknál
illative foltba foltokba
sublative foltra foltokra
allative folthoz foltokhoz
elative foltból foltokból
delative foltról foltokról
ablative folttól foltoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
folté foltoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
foltéi foltokéi
Possessive forms of folt
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. foltom foltjaim
2nd person sing. foltod foltjaid
3rd person sing. foltja foltjai
1st person plural foltunk foltjaink
2nd person plural foltotok foltjaitok
3rd person plural foltjuk foltjaik

Derived terms

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Expressions

References

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  1. ^ folt in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

Further reading

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  • folt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish folt, from Proto-Celtic *woltos (compare Cornish gols, Old Breton guolt, Welsh gwallt), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₂- (compare English wold, Lithuanian váltis (oat awn), Serbo-Croatian vlȃt (ear (of wheat)), Ancient Greek λάσιος (lásios, hairy)).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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folt m (genitive singular foilt, nominative plural foilt)

  1. hair (of head); locks, tresses

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
folt fholt bhfolt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 24, page 14

Further reading

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Manx

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Etymology

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From Old Irish folt.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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folt m (genitive singular fuilt, plural fuilt)

  1. hair
    Ta’n folt echey ny hassoo er.
    His hair sticks up.
    Ta’n folt echey tuittym magh.
    His hair is falling out.
    Ta’n folt eck cass-lhoobagh.
    Her hair is thickly curled.
    Ta’n folt eck sheeley sheese y dreeym eck.
    Her hair is hanging down her back.
    Va’n folt echey baarit dy lhome.
    His hair was cut close.
    Va’n folt echey tuittym neose harrish e gheayltyn.
    His hair fell over his shoulders.

Mutation

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Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
folt olt volt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old French folet (fool).

Noun

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folt (plural folts)

  1. a fool

Derived terms

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *woltos (compare Cornish gols, Old Breton guolt, Welsh gwallt), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₂- (compare English wold, Lithuanian váltis (oat awn), Serbo-Croatian vlȃt (ear (of wheat)), Ancient Greek λάσιος (lásios, hairy)).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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folt m (genitive fuilt, nominative plural fuilt)

  1. hair

Inflection

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Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative folt foltL fuiltL
Vocative fuilt foltL fultuH
Accusative foltN foltL fultuH
Genitive fuiltL folt foltN
Dative foltL foltaib foltaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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  • Irish: folt
  • Manx: folt
  • Scottish Gaelic: falt

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
folt ḟolt folt
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Hungarian folt.

Noun

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folt n (plural folturi)

  1. patch
  2. rag

Declension

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Welsh

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English volt, from the name of the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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folt m (plural foltau or foltiau, not mutable)

  1. (physics) volt

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “folt”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies