# folt
## Hungarian
### Etymology

Native word, probably from fal (“to devour”) +‎ -t (noun-forming suffix), presumably with the original sense “part, piece”. Doublet of falat (“bite”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfolt]
* Rhymes: -olt

### Noun

folt (plural foltok)
* stain, spot, blotch
* patch
* blemish

#### Derived terms

* foltos
* foltoz
* megtalálja zsák a foltját

### References

* ↑ folt in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

### Further reading

* folt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Irish
### Etymology

From Old Irish folt, from Proto-Celtic *woltos (compare Cornish gols, Old Breton guolt, Welsh gwallt), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₂- (compare English wold, Lithuanian váltis (“oat awn”), Serbo-Croatian vlȃt (“ear (of wheat)”), Ancient Greek λάσιος (lásios, “hairy”)).

### Pronunciation

* (Munster) IPA: /fˠɞl̪ˠt̪ˠ/, /fˠɞl̪ˠh/

### Noun

folt m (genitive singular foilt, nominative plural foilt)
* hair (of head); locks, tresses

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
folt
foilt
vocative
a fhoilt
a fholta
genitive
foilt
folt
dative
folt
foilt
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an folt
na foilt
genitive
an fhoilt
na bhfolt
dative
leis an bhfolt don fholt
leis na foilt :

#### Derived terms

* claonfholt m (“flowing locks”)
* folt bé (“maidenhair”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 24, page 14

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “folt”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Manx
### Etymology

From Old Irish folt.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [folt̪]

### Noun

folt m (genitive singular fuilt, plural fuilt)
* hair
    Ta’n folt echey ny hassoo er.His hair sticks up.
    Ta’n folt echey tuittym magh.His hair is falling out.
    Ta’n folt eck cass-lhoobagh.Her hair is thickly curled.
    Ta’n folt eck sheeley sheese y dreeym eck.Her hair is hanging down her back.
    Va’n folt echey baarit dy lhome.His hair was cut close.
    Va’n folt echey tuittym neose harrish e gheayltyn.His hair fell over his shoulders.

### Mutation
## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* folet

### Etymology

Borrowed from Old French folet (“fool”).

### Noun

folt (plural folts)
* a fool

#### Derived terms

* folten, foltin
* folthēd, foltheed
* foltisch

## Old Irish
### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *woltos (compare Cornish gols, Old Breton guolt, Welsh gwallt), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₂- (compare English wold, Lithuanian váltis (“oat awn”), Serbo-Croatian vlȃt (“ear (of wheat)”), Ancient Greek λάσιος (lásios, “hairy”)).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɸol͈t]

### Noun

folt m (genitive fuilt, nominative plural fuilt)
* hair

#### Inflection

Masculine o-stem :
| | Singular | Dual | Plural |
| Nominative | folt | folt$^L$ | fuilt$^L$ |
| Vocative | fuilt | folt$^L$ | fultu$^H$ |
| Accusative | folt$^N$ | folt$^L$ | fultu$^H$ |
| Genitive | fuilt$^L$ | folt | folt$^N$ |
| Dative | folt$^L$ | foltaib | foltaib |
| Initial mutations of a following adjective: $^H$ = triggers aspiration $^L$ = triggers lenition $^N$ = triggers nasalization ||||

#### Descendants

* Irish: folt
* Manx: folt
* Scottish Gaelic: falt

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian folt.

### Noun

folt n (plural folturi)
* patch
* rag

#### Declension
## Welsh
### Etymology

Borrowed from English volt, from the name of the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vɔlt/

### Noun

folt m (plural foltau or foltiau, not mutable)
* (physics) volt

#### Derived terms

* foltedd (“voltage”)

### Further reading

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “folt”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies