# vall
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈbaʎ]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈvaʎ]
* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: ball (Central)
* Rhymes: -aʎ

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan vall from Latin vallem. Compare Occitan val, vath.

#### Noun

vall f (plural valls)
* valley
    Antonym: muntanya

##### Derived terms

* avall
* vallada

### Etymology 2

From Latin vallum.

#### Noun

vall m (plural valls)
* moat
    Synonym: fossat

### References

* “vall” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “vall” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Estonian
### Etymology

From Middle Low German wal.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vˈɑlʲː/

### Noun

vall (genitive valli, partitive valli)
* embankment, earthwork, wall; a defensive fortification made of earth or stone
* embankment; any long mound of earth, stone, or snow

#### Declension
## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈvɒlː]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: vall
* Rhymes: -ɒlː

### Verb

vall
* (transitive) to confess, to admit
    Synonyms: bevall, elismer, beismer
** (intransitive, law) to testify, to bear witness
    Synonyms: tanúskodik, vallomást tesz
** (reflexively, as vallja magát, with definite conjugation, law) to plead (innocent or guilty) (used with -nak/-nek)
    A vádlott ártatlannak vallotta magát. ― The defendant pleaded not guilty.
* (transitive) to declare (e.g. one’s love)
    Synonyms: elmond, kifejez, kinyilvánít
** (transitive) to profess, to avow (a belief or faith)
** (transitive) to hold (certain views), to advocate (a principle)
** (transitive) to acknowledge, to own (a child as one's own) (used with magáénak)
** (reflexively, as vallja magát, with definite conjugation) to profess oneself, to identify as something/someone
* (intransitive) to show, to speak of, to bespeak, to denote, to indicate, to be indicative of (e.g. good or bad taste or personal interests, deducing them from external clues) (used with -ra/-re)
    Synonyms: mutat, jelez, elárul, árulkodik

#### Derived terms

* vallat
* vallás
* vallomás
(With verbal prefixes):
* bevall
* kivall
* megvall
* rávall
* hiszi és vallja
* kárt vall
* kudarcot vall
* szégyent vall
* színt vall

### Further reading

* vall 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

## Icelandic
### Verb

vall (strong)
* first/third-person singular past indicative of vella

## Livonian
### Alternative forms

* (Courland) va'llõ

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *valadak.

#### Verb

vall
* pour

### Etymology 2

From val (“light”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

#### Verb

vall
* light

## Lombard
### Noun

vall f
* valley

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

vall
* past of vella

## Occitan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin vallis.

### Pronunciation

* /'vall/

### Noun

vall f (plural valls)
* (Guardiol) valley

#### Dialectal variants

* vath (Gascon)
* vau (Provençal)
* val (Languedoc)

## Swedish
### Etymology 1

From Old Swedish valder, from Latin vallum (“rampart”).

#### Noun

vall c
* a bank (long sloping elevation on the ground), often in the form of a wall (cognate) of earth, gravel, or the like, used as a primitive fortification (but also of for example snow), an embankment, an earthwork

##### Descendants

* → Finnish: valli

#### See also

* mur (“free-standing wall”)
* vägg (“wall of a building”)

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse vǫllr, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”).

#### Noun

vall c
* a field sown with grass, clover, or the like for haymaking or grazing; a hay meadow, a pasture, a field
* (in some expressions) grazing
* (often in names) a sports field, a sports ground

##### Declension
### Related terms

* valla

### References

* vall in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* vall in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* vall in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

## Yola
### Etymology 1

* From Middle English fallen, from Old English feallan, from Proto-West Germanic *fallan.
* From Middle English fal, from Old English feall.

#### Alternative forms

* vale, vole

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /val/, /vaːl/, /vɔːl/
* Homophone: voal

#### Verb

vall (simple past vele)
* to fall or begin

##### Derived terms

* valleat

#### Noun

vall
* fall
** 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 129, lines 9:Zien, "a blaak vall, a blaak vall, Ich meigh vella knew,Saying "a black fall, a black fall——I might well have known,

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

vall
* Alternative form of wul (“wall”)
** 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 133, lines 17:A vidler hay shudled wi hade to a vallThe fiddler he staggered with his head to the wall,

### References

* ↑ Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 74
* 1 2 Kathleen A. Browne (1927) “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)‎, volume 17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland