-vold
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English -fold, from Old English -feald, from Proto-West Germanic *-falþ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɔːld/
Suffix
-vold
- Forms adjectives meaning "times" or "parts"; -fold.
- 1867, “BIT OF DIALOGUE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 111:
- Aar's neer a vear o aam to be drine-vold.
- There is no fear of them to
fall into a dry furrow or trench(be three-fold).
- There is no fear of them to
Derived terms
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 111