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== Nynorn ==
=== Etymology ===
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=== Shetland use ===
{{Jakobsen/s}}'''''fa’''''' [fâ], {{nornabr|vb.|verb}}, is in form {{nornabr|L.Sc.}} fa’ = Eng. fall, but is used in some {{nornabr|exprs.|expressions}} {{nornabr|orig.}} from Norn, and {{nornabr|diff.}} from {{nornabr|Eng.}} ({{nornabr|L.Sc.}}), {{nornabr|esp.|especially}} with {{nornabr|preps.|prepositions}} and {{nornabr|advs.|adverbs}} Thus: '''''f.''''' {{nornsp|afore}}, ''to occur to one,'' hit [‘it’] fell afore me, ''it came into my mind''; *falla fyrir ({{nornabr|O.N.|Old Northern}} falla fyrir, {{nornabr|esp.|especially}} ''to happen, occur)''; {{nornabr|cf.}} {{nornsp|ber}} afore (under {{nornsp|ber,}} {{nornabr|vb.|verb}}). — '''''f.''''' at, ''to fall asleep, to slumber'' ({{nornabr|N.I.}}), doubtless of the eyes: ''to fall to.'' — '''''f.''''' {{nornsp|frae}}, ''to fall off''; ''forsake,'' also ''to die''; {{nornabr|O.N.|Old Northern}} falla frá, ''to dropp off''; ''die.'' — '''''f.''''' {{nornsp|upon}}, of meat and fish: ''to begin to lose its freshness, become “high"''; de flesh or fish is “fa’en upon”, ''the flesh or fish has passed the fresh state, is getting “high”'' ({{nornabr|Y.|Yell}}, {{nornabr|Fe.|Fetlar}}); {{nornabr|cf.}} {{nornabr|Fær.}} “falla á” in {{nornabr|exprs.|expressions}} such as: tað er fallið a skerpukjøtið, ''a layer of mould has covered the wind-dried mutton.'' {{nornabr|Cf.}} {{nornsp|fall}}, {{nornabr|sb.|substantive}}{{Jakobsen/m}}'''fall''' [fäᶅ], {{nornabr|sb.|substantive}}, ''a fall'', now only as second part in some {{nornabr|compds.|compounds}}: a) ''a fall; precipitation,'' in {{nornsp|bafall}}, {{nornsp|berg-fall}}; b) ''a downfall''; ''lameness,'' in {{nornsp|tungefall}}. Other forms are {{nornsp|fadl}} ({{nornabr|Fo.|Foula}}) in {{nornsp|tungefadl}} and — weakly stressed — {{nornsp|fel}} [fəl], ''current in the sea''; ''course of a current'', in {{nornsp|land-fell}} ({{nornsp|lantfel}}). See the {{nornabr|compds.|compounds}} mentioned. {{nornabr|O.N.|Old Northern}} fall, {{nornabr|n.}}, ''a fall,'' {{SIC|ete.|etc.}}; {{nornabr|Fær.}} fall, {{nornabr|n.}}, also: ''current.'' {{nornabr|Uncompd.}} in {{nornabr|Shetl.}} now always “fa’ [fâ]”, {{nornabr|L.Sc.}} form of {{nornabr|Eng.}} fall.{{Jakobsen/m}}{{*}}'''fall''' [fäᶅ?], {{nornabr|vb.|verb}}, ''to fall'', now only in {{nornabr|perf. part.}} form, appearing in an old fairy rigmarole, belonging to a Fetlar version of the legend of the horseman and the fairy in the hill: “…[tell tuna (tøna) tivla, at nuna (nøna) nivla is] {{nornsp|valne}} {{nornsp|vatne}} [väᶅnə väƫnə]”,…''[tell T. T. that N. N. has] fallen into the water,'' {{nornabr|O.N.|Old Northern}} fallinn í vatnit. {{nornsp|valne}} for *{{nornsp|falne}} [*fäᶅnə] by assimilating {{nornabr|infl.|influence}} of v in the {{nornabr|foll.}} {{nornsp|vatne}}. In the Foula-ballad: *fadlin. — See Introd., Fragments of Norn, also N.Spr. pp. 153—54. For *{{nornsp|fall}}, now commonly {{nornabr|L.Sc.}} fa’.{{Jakobsen/e}}

=== Pronunciation ===
IPA:

=== Alternate Forms ===
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=== Verb ===
;falla
# fall

==== Inflection ====
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==== Synonyms ====
(none known)

== Sources ==
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