mainfall

noun

Etymology

From main + fall.

  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 mainfall — “main + fall

Definitions

  1. An inclined surface of the ground.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mainfall. 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