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foal

noun
/fəʊl/UK/fɒl//foʊl/US

Etymology

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”). Cognates 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.

  1. inherited from *pōlH-✻ — “animal young”
  2. inherited from *fulô✻ — “foal”
  3. inherited from *folō✻
  4. inherited from fola
  5. inherited from ffoole

Definitions

  1. A young horse or other equine, especially just after birth or less than a year old.

  2. A young boy who assisted the headsman by pushing or pulling the tub.

  3. To give birth to (a foal)

    To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring.

    • All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled.

The neighborhood

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