foal – English noun declension

English noun forms of foal

Noun: foal
Singularfoal
Pluralfoals

Sample Sentences

Etymology

1. From Middle English ffoole, foale, fole, fool, foole, fowle, from Old English fola, from Proto-West Germanic *folō, from Proto-Germanic *fulô (“foal”), from pre-Germanic *pl̥Hon-, from Proto-Indo-European *pōlH- (“animal young”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foole (“foal”), West Frisian fôle (“foal”), Dutch veulen (“foal”), German Fohlen, Füllen (“foal”), Low German Fohl (“foal”), Vilamovian fyłn (“foal”), Danish føl (“foal”), Faroese fyl (“foal”), Icelandic foli, fyl (“foal”), Norwegian Bokmål fole, føll (“foal”), Norwegian Nynorsk fole, fyl, føl (“foal”), Swedish fåle, föl (“foal”); compare also Latin pullus (“young animal”), Greek πουλάρι (poulári, “foal”), Albanian pelë (“mare”), Armenian ուլ (ul, “kid, young of a goat”). Related to filly. See: Middle English Nouns 'ffoole', Old English Nouns 'fola', Dutch Nouns 'veulen', German Nouns 'Fohlen', Danish Nouns 'føl', Faroese Nouns 'fyl', Icelandic Nouns 'foli', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'fole', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'fole', Swedish Nouns 'fåle', Latin Nouns 'pullus', Greek Nouns 'πουλάρι'.

Verbs referencing "foal"

Danish Nouns føl, Dutch Nouns veulen, Ancient Greek Nouns πῶλος, Swedish Nouns fåle.