Fallsucht

German

Etymology

From fallen (“to fall”) +‎ Sucht (here in the old sense “illness, disease”), thus the same as English falling sickness, Dutch vallende ziekte or Swedish fallandesot. Compare also Arabic صَرْع (ṣarʕ), Estonian langetõbi, Polish padaczka, Czech padoucnice, Russian паду́чая (padúčaja) Serbo-Croatian pȁdavica, all equally derived from a word for “to fall”. From the fits which cast the patients to the ground.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfalˌzʊχt/
  • Hyphenation: Fall‧sucht
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Noun

Fallsucht f (genitive Fallsucht, no plural)

  1. (archaic) epilepsy
    Synonyms: Epilepsie, (obsolete) Schwerenot

Declension

Declension of Fallsucht [sg-only, feminine]
singular
indef. def. noun
nominative eine die Fallsucht
genitive einer der Fallsucht
dative einer der Fallsucht
accusative eine die Fallsucht

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “Fallsucht” in Duden online
  • “Fallsucht” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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