Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To make something fall, especially a tree. · To strike down; to kill; to destroy. · To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance or pleat.
A cutting-down of timber. · The stitching down of a fold of cloth; specifically, the portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down. · The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
From Middle English fellen, from Old English fellan, fiellan (“to cause to fall, strike down, fell, cut down, throw down, defeat, destroy, kill, tumble, cause to stumble”), from Proto-West Germanic *fallijan, from Proto-Germanic *fallijaną (“to fell, to cause to fall”), causative of Proto-Germanic *fallaną (“to fall”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂peh₃lH-. Cognate with Dutch vellen (“to fell, cut down”), German fällen (“to fell”), Danish fælde (“to fell”), Norwegian felle (“to fell”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionfellenenm
- Inherited-form mentionfellanang
- Inherited-form mention*fallijangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*fallijanągem-pro · to fell, to cause to fall
- Derivation mention*fallanągem-pro · to fall
- Derivation mention*h₃elh₁-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionvellennl · to fell, cut down
- Cognate mentionfällende · to fell
- Cognate mentionfældeda · to fell
- Cognate mentionfelleno · to fell
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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