Fall

German (Berlin)

/fal/

noun
Definitions
  • case actual event, situation, or fact, piece of work, instance or event as a topic of study, legal proceeding, grammar: specific inflection of a word, medicine: instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms
  • fall, drop
  • fall, decline

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German val inherited from Old High German val inherited from Proto-Germanic *fallaz.

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*fallaz

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