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foule

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Tombez   dans   Dieu ,  foule   effarée  !

Fall into God, frightened crowd!

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B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ful/
Etymology

Inherited from Middle French
foule
Inherited from Old French
foulc
Cognate with Old High German
folc
Cognate with Old English
folc
In summary

Inherited from Middle French foule (“group of men, people collectively”), alteration (due to Middle French foule (“act of treading”)) of Old French foulc (“people, multitude, crowd, troop”), from Early Medieval Latin fulcus, from Frankish *folc, *fulc (“crowd, multitude, people”), from Proto-Germanic *fulką (“collection or class of people, multitude; host of warriors”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”). Cognate with Old High German folc (“people collectively, nation”), Old English folc (“common people, troop, multitude”). More at folk. For the loss of c after l, compare Old French mareschal, seneschal, etc.

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