Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA young horse or similar young equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old. · A young boy who assisted the headsman by pushing or pulling the tub.
From Middle English ffoole, foale, fole, fool, foole, fowle, from Old English fola, from Proto-West Germanic *folō, from Proto-Germanic *fulô (“foal”), from pre-Germanic *pl̥Hon-, from Proto-Indo-European *pōlH- (“animal young”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foole (“foal”), West Frisian fôle (“foal”), Dutch veulen (“foal”), German Fohlen, Füllen (“foal”), Low German Fohl (“foal”), Vilamovian fyłn (“foal”), Danish føl (“foal”), Faroese fyl (“foal”), Icelandic foli, fyl (“foal”), Norwegian Bokmål fole, føll (“foal”), Norwegian Nynorsk fole, fyl, føl (“foal”), Swedish fåle, föl (“foal”); compare also Latin pullus (“young animal”), Greek πουλάρι (poulári, “foal”), Albanian pelë (“mare”), Armenian ուլ (ul, “kid, young of a goat”). Related to filly.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*peh₂w-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionffooleenm
- Inherited-form mentionfolaang
- Inherited-form mention*folōgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*fulôgem-pro · foal
- Inherited-form mention*pōlH-ine-pro · animal young
- Cognate mentionFoolestq · foal
- Cognate mentionfôlefy · foal
- Cognate mentionveulennl · foal
- Cognate mentionFohlende
- Cognate mentionFohlnds · foal
- Cognate mentionfyłnwym · foal
- Cognate mentionfølda · foal
- Cognate mentionfylfo · foal
- Cognate mentionfoliis
- Cognate mentionfolenb
- Cognate mentionfolenn
- Cognate mentionfålesv
- Cognate mentionpullusla · young animal
- Cognate mentionπουλάριel · foal
- Cognate mentionpelësq · mare
- Cognate mentionուլhy · kid, young of a goat
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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