fole

fole (plural foles)

1. Obsolete spelling of foal
   • 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Æstivation:

     In candent ire the solar splendor flames;
     The foles, languescent, pend from arid rames;
     His humid front the cive, anheling, wipes,
     And dreams of erring on ventiferous ripes.

From Proto-Albanian *spālai, from Proto-Indo-European *spel (“to cleave, break”). Related to fyell and fell. Compare Greek φωλιά (foliá, “nest”), from Ancient Greek φωλεά (phōleá).

fole f (indefinite plural fole, definite singular foleja, definite plural foletë)

1. nest (mainly of birds)

• fyell
• fell

From Old French fol, from Latin follis.

• foul, fol, fool, fule, ffuyll, foole, ffoole

• IPA^(key): /foːl/

fole (plural foles)

1. A fool, idiot, or moron; somebody who is stupid or unthinking.
2. An entertainer or joker; somebody who is employed to provide amusement.
3. (rare) Someone who is incapacitated or shocked; someone whose idiocy is temporary.
4. (rare) A victim of a scam or trick; someone who is fooled.

• folen
• folisch
• folliche
• folye

• English: fool
• Scots: fule, fuil

fole

1. Foolish, moronic, idiotic, ridiculous.
2. Evil, iniquitous, malign, devilish.
3. Sexually deviant, immoral or sinful.

• Scots: fule, fuil

• “fọ̄l, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-17.
• “fọ̄l, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-17.

From Old English fola, from Proto-West Germanic *folō, from Proto-Germanic *fulô.

• fool, foole, ffoole, fowle, foale

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːl(ə)/

fole (plural foles)

1. A foal (a young horse).
2. A horse regardless of its age.
3. The young of any other mammal, including the human being.

• English: foal
• Scots: fole, foill
• Yola: voal

• “fōle, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-17.

fole

1. Alternative form of folen (“to foal”)
2. inflection of folen (“to foal”):
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive

From Old Norse foli.

fole m (definite singular folen, indefinite plural foler, definite plural folene)

1. a foal (colt or filly)

• føll

From Old Norse fola.

fole

1. to foal (give birth to a foal)

• “fole” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse foli.

fole m (definite singular folen, indefinite plural folar, definite plural folane)

1. a foal (colt or filly)

• føl

From Old Norse fola.

• fola

fole

1. to foal (give birth to a foal)

• “fole” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Latin follis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolǵʰnis, derivative of *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”).

fole m (plural foles)

1. bellows (flexible container used to blow air)

• gaita de foles