# fola
## Albanian
### Verb

fola
* first-person singular aorist of flas

## Asturian
### Alternative forms

* ḥola (Eastern Asturias)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfola/ [ˈfo.la]
* Rhymes: -ola
* Syllabification: fo‧la

### Noun

fola f (plural foles)
* wave
* choppy seas; choppiness

## Icelandic
### Noun

fola
* inflection of foli:
** indefinite accusative/dative/genitive singular
** indefinite accusative/genitive plural

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from English fool, foolish, French fou, Italian folle.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfola/

### Adjective

fola
* crazy, mad, foolish

#### Derived terms

* foleso

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfˠɔlˠə/

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

fola f (genitive singular fola, nominative plural folta)
* Alternative form of fala (“grudge, spite, resentment, feud”)

##### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
fola
folta
vocative
a fhola
a fholta
genitive
fola
folta
dative
fola
folta
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an fhola
na folta
genitive
na fola
na bhfolta
dative
leis an bhfola don fhola
leis na folta :

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

fola f
* inflection of fuil (“blood”):
** genitive singular
** all cases plural

### Mutation

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

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fola”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fola”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “fola”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

## Italian
### Etymology

Latin fābula (“narration”). Doublet of favola and fiaba.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔ.la/
* Rhymes: -ɔla
* Hyphenation: fò‧la

### Noun

fola f (plural fole)
* (literary) fairy tale
* (by extension, usually in the plural) fib
    Synonyms: balla, frottola, panzana, fandonia, fanfaluca
    inventare fole ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

### Further reading

* fola$^1$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
* fola$^2$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* falò

## Middle Irish
### Etymology 1

Apparently a specialized form of Old Irish folud (“goods and services owed in virtue of a contract”), from Proto-Celtic *uɸolautom (“wealth, riches, property”).

#### Noun

fola f
* grudge

##### Descendants

* Irish: fala

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

fola
* genitive singular of fuil

### Mutation

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

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 fola, fala”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *folō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfo.lɑ/

### Noun

fola m
* foal, colt
* elephant calf
* camel calf

#### Declension

Weak:

#### Derived terms

* ġefol

#### Descendants

* Middle English: fole
** English: foal
** Scots: fole, foill

### References

* John R. Clark Hall (1916) “fola”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan

## Old Norse
### Noun

fola
* inflection of foli:
** accusative singular/plural
** dative/genitive singular
** genitive plural

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvɔla/

### Noun

fola
* Soft mutation of bola.

### Mutation

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