Contextualizebeta

dewfall

noun
/ˈdʒuːˌfɔːl/

Etymology

From dew + fall. Compare Danish dugfald (“dewfall”).

  1. inherited from *fallą✻
  2. inherited from fealle — “trap, snare”
  3. inherited from feall
  4. inherited from fal
  5. inherited from *h₃elh₁-✻ — “to collapse, fall; to destroy”
  6. inherited from *fallaną✻ — “to fall”
  7. inherited from *fallan✻ — “to fall”
  8. inherited from feallan — “to fall, fail, decay, die, attack”
  9. inherited from fallen
  10. compounded as dewfall — “dew + fall”

Definitions

  1. The forming of dew.

  2. The time when dew begins to form.

    • It was dark when they rose in the morning and dark when they filed into the kitchen to get their plates and spoons and still dark when they turned out in the dewfall and grainy mist of the yard.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dewfall. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA