faller

See also: Faller and fäller

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English fall

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

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Latin -ārius

Old French -ierbor.

Middle English -er

English -er

English faller

From fall + -er.

Noun

faller (plural fallers)

1. One who falls.
   • 1920, The Green Book Magazine, volume 23, page 75:

     I've said that you girls on this side were not very whole-hearted fallers-in-love.

   • 2011, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon:

     Most trippers and fallers I know fall forward, but it could have happened. He could have gone out for a midnight walk, he could have wanted to commune with the moon from the middle of the log, he could have tripped and fallen backward […]

   • 2016, Michael P. Burke, Forensic Pathology of Fractures and Mechanisms of Injury:

     Significantly more cervical spine injuries were seen in fallers as opposed to jumpers.

2. A fruit that falls from the tree, rather than being picked.
   • 1867, The Penny Post, volume 17, page 17:

     There were peas to be gathered and shelled, currants and gooseberries to be picked, and when the apple season came, she had to go round the orchard several times a-day to pick up the fallers.

3. (engineering) A part which acts by falling, such as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.
4. Synonym of feller (“one who cuts down trees”).
   • 1909, Pamphlets on Conservation of Natural Resources, page 14:

     Fallers can make a tree fall exactly where they plan.

   • 2011, “Master the Firefighter Exam”, in Peterson's:

     A worker who assists fallers and/or sawyers in clearing away brush, limbs and small trees, […]

Derived terms

• backfaller
• counterfaller
• freefaller
• infaller
• off-faller

Anagrams

• Lafler, fellar, refall

Catalan

Etymology

From Falles +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [fəˈʎe̞]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central) [fəˈʎe]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [faˈʎeɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [faˈʎe]

Adjective

faller (feminine fallera, masculine plural fallers, feminine plural falleres)

1. (relational) of the Falles

Noun

faller m (plural fallers)

1. someone taking part in the Falles

Further reading

• “faller”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Norman

Etymology

From Old French faloir, from an earlier *falleir, from Latin fallō, fallere, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰwel- (“to lie, deceive”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

faller

1. (Jersey, impersonal) to be necessary

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

faller

1. present tense of falle

Swedish

Pronunciation

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Verb

faller

1. present indicative of falla