fol

Imperative present form (2nd pers. singular) of flas (“I speak”). See flas for etymology.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɔl]

fol (first-person singular past tense fola, participle folur)

1. Speak!

• flas
• fjalë
• fjalim
• fjalor
• folje

• 科 (fo1)

From clipping of English follow.

fol (Hong Kong Cantonese)

1. (Internet slang) Short for follow.

fol (Hong Kong Cantonese)

1. (Internet slang) Short for follow.

• IPA^(key): /fɔl/

fol

1. Alternative form of fou (used only when the following noun starts with a vowel or mute h)

• “fol”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin follis (“bellows, purse”), cognate with Portuguese fole and Spanish fuelle. With the meaning of "madman", from Old Occitan fol or Old French fol.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔl/

fol m (plural foles)

1. bag (of bagpipes)
2. bellows
3. bag, sack, goatskin

   home pequeno, fol de veleno

   a little man, a bag of poison

   (proverb)

4. (archaic) a madman

• “fol” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “fol” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “fol” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “fol” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “fol” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From French folle.

• IPA^(key): /fol/

fol (masculine fou)

1. (feminine) mad, crazy person

fol (masculine fou)

1. (feminine) mad, crazy, insane

   Synonym: pagli

fol

1. Alternative form of fole (“fool”)

fol

1. Alternative form of fole (“foolish”)

From Old French fol.

fol m (feminine singular folle, masculine plural folz, feminine plural folles)

1. mad; insane
2. foolish; silly

fol m (plural fols, feminine singular folle, feminine plural folles)

1. madman (person who is insane)

• French: fol, fou
  • Mauritian Creole: fol

From Latin follis, follem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔl/
• Rhymes: -ɔl

fol m (oblique and nominative feminine singular fole or folle)

1. mad; insane
2. foolish; silly

• folie
• folement

• Middle French: fol
  • French: fol, fou
    • Mauritian Creole: fol
• Norman: fo m, folle f
• → Middle English: fole, foul, fol, fool, fule, ffuyll, foole, ffoole
  • English: fool
  • Scots: fule, fuil
• → Old Danish: fol
  • Danish: fjols

From Latin follis. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French fol.

fol

1. mad; insane; crazy

• folamen
• folor

• Occitan: hòu, fòl, fòu

fol

1. Abbreviation of folio.

Borrowed from English four.

fol

1. four

• folam
• folüm

• IPA^(key): /vɔl/

fol

1. soft mutation of of bol

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

fol

1. full (not empty)
2. full of
3. whole, full, complete

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• folwoeksen

• “fol”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011