-vold

See also: vold and Vold

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English -fold, from Old English -feald, from Proto-West Germanic *-falþ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔːld/

Suffix

-vold

1. Forms adjectives meaning "times" or "parts"; -fold.
   • 1867, “BIT OF DIALOGUE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 111:

     Aar's neer a vear o aam to be drine-vold.

     There is no fear of them to fall into a dry furrow or trench (be three-fold).

Derived terms

• drine-vold

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 111