fell

(Engels)

Verb

1. (transitive) To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
2. (transitive) To strike down, kill, destroy.
3. To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.

Noun

1. A cutting-down of timber.
2. 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.
3. The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.

Noun

1. An animal skin, hide, pelt.
2. Human skin (now only as a metaphorical use of previous sense).

Noun

1. (Scotland) A rocky ridge or chain of mountains, particularly in the British Isles or Fennoscandia.
2. (Scotland) A wild field or upland moor.

Adj

1. Of a strong and cruel nature; eager and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.
2. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent
3. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) Very large; huge.
4. (obsolete) Eager; earnest; intent.

Adv

Sharply; fiercely.

Noun

Anger; gall; melancholy.

Noun

The finer portions of ore, which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.

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Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/fɛl/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: fellen

Geërf van Old English: fellan

Verwante met Nederlands: vellen

Verwante met Duits: fällen

Verwante met Deens: fælde

Verwante met Noors: felle

Geërf van Middle English: fell

Geërf van Old English: fel

Verwante met Fries: fel

Verwante met Nederlands: vel

Verwante met Duits: Fell

Verwante met Latyn: pellis

Verwante met Litaus: plėnė

Verwante met Russies: плена́

Verwante met Albanees: plah

Verwante met Antieke Grieks: πέλλᾱς

Verwante met Boeknoors: fjell

Verwante met Deens: fjeld

Verwante met Duits: Felsen

Verwante met Middle Low German: vels

Verwante met Iers: aill

Verwante met Antieke Grieks: πέλλα

Verwante met Pasjtoe: پرښه

Verwante met Sanskrit: पाषाण

Geërf van Middle English: fel

Geërf van Old English: *fel

Verwante met Old Frisian: fal

Verwante met Middle Dutch: fel

Verwante met Deens: fæl

Verwante met Middle High German: vālant

Verwante met Nederlands: fel

In summary

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”).

Sinonieme

cut down

bring down

cut

throw down

chop down

knock down

chop

cruel

hide

barbarous

mutilate

brutal

fly

✈️

fall

strike down

vicious

mountain

⛰️

savage

drop

knock over

throw

felled seam

overcome

cut off

upset

push over

snap off

topple

vanish

down

skin

overpower

roughshod

hill

hew

defeat

canopy

cut up

bulldoze

heinous

hackle

curtail

bag

appalling

hack

ghastly

cover

hash

#️⃣

frightful

come down

Vertalings

fällen

abattre

talar

faire tomber

abbattere

derribar

schlagen

vellen

tumbar

abatir

cortar

atterrare

mutilare

verstümmeln

abschneiden

Sinne

He has been doing so ever since it fell dark .

A large piece suddenly came off and fell with a loud and sharp noise .

He fell asleep , and when he awoke the sun was already high .

Night fell , and an assortment of fighting men and merchants entered and exited the tent .