Dictionary:falla

Nynorn

Etymology

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Shetland use

An Etymological Dictionary of the Norn Language in Shetland (1928–1932)

Jakobsen, Jakob

fa’ [fâ], vb., is in form L.Sc. fa’ = Eng. fall, but is used in some exprs. orig. from Norn, and diff. from Eng. (L.Sc.), esp. with preps. and advs. Thus: f. afore, to occur to one, hit [‘it’] fell afore me, it came into my mind; *falla fyrir (O.N. falla fyrir, esp. to happen, occur); cf. ber afore (under ber, vb.). — f. at, to fall asleep, to slumber (N.I.), doubtless of the eyes: to fall to. — f. frae, to fall off; forsake, also to die; O.N. falla frá, to dropp off; die. — f. 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” (Y., Fe.); cf. Fær. “falla á” in exprs. such as: tað er fallið a skerpukjøtið, a layer of mould has covered the wind-dried mutton. Cf. fall, sb.

fall [fäᶅ], sb., a fall, now only as second part in some compds.: a) a fall; precipitation, in bafall, berg-fall; b) a downfall; lameness, in tungefall. Other forms are fadl (Fo.) in tungefadl and — weakly stressed — fel [fəl], current in the sea; course of a current, in land-fell (lantfel). See the compds. mentioned. O.N. fall, n., a fall, ete.; Fær. fall, n., also: current. Uncompd. in Shetl. now always “fa’ [fâ]”, L.Sc. form of Eng. fall.

*fall [fäᶅ?], vb., to fall, now only in 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] valne vatne [väᶅnə väƫnə]”,…[tell T. T. that N. N. has] fallen into the water, O.N. fallinn í vatnit. valne for *falne [*fäᶅnə] by assimilating infl. of v in the foll. vatne. In the Foula-ballad: *fadlin. — See Introd., Fragments of Norn, also N.Spr. pp. 153—54. For *fall, now commonly L.Sc. fa’.

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Verb

falla

1. fall

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