folt

Native word, probably from fal (“to devour”) +‎ -t (noun-forming suffix), presumably with the original sense “part, piece”. Doublet of falat (“bite”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈfolt]
• Rhymes: -olt

folt (plural foltok)

1. stain, spot, blotch
2. patch
3. blemish

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	folt	foltok
accusative	foltot	foltokat
dative	foltnak	foltoknak
instrumental	folttal	foltokkal
causal-final	foltért	foltokért
translative	folttá	foltokká
terminative	foltig	foltokig
essive-formal	foltként	foltokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	foltban	foltokban
superessive	folton	foltokon
adessive	foltnál	foltoknál
illative	foltba	foltokba
sublative	foltra	foltokra
allative	folthoz	foltokhoz
elative	foltból	foltokból
delative	foltról	foltokról
ablative	folttól	foltoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	folté	foltoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	foltéi	foltokéi

Possessive forms of folt
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	foltom	foltjaim
2nd person sing.	foltod	foltjaid
3rd person sing.	foltja	foltjai
1st person plural	foltunk	foltjaink
2nd person plural	foltotok	foltjaitok
3rd person plural	foltjuk	foltjaik

• 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

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”)).

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /fˠɞl̪ˠt̪ˠ/^[1], /fˠɞl̪ˠh/

folt m (genitive singular foilt, nominative plural foilt)

1. hair (of head); locks, tresses

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

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

From Old Irish folt.

• IPA^(key): [folt̪]

folt m (genitive singular fuilt, plural fuilt)

1. 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.

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
folt	olt	volt
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• folet

Borrowed from Old French folet (“fool”).

folt (plural folts)

1. a fool

• folten, foltin
• folthēd, foltheed
• foltisch

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”)).

• IPA^(key): [ɸol͈t]

folt m (genitive fuilt, nominative plural fuilt)

1. hair

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	folt	foltL	fuiltL
Vocative	fuilt	foltL	fultuH
Accusative	foltN	foltL	fultuH
Genitive	fuiltL	folt	foltN
Dative	foltL	foltaib	foltaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

• Irish: folt
• Manx: folt
• Scottish Gaelic: falt

Borrowed from Hungarian folt.

folt n (plural folturi)

1. patch
2. rag

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

• IPA^(key): /vɔlt/

folt m (plural foltau or foltiau, not mutable)

1. (physics) volt

• foltedd (“voltage”)

• 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