Fold Definition
- to blend (an ingredient) into a mixture, using gentle, cutting strokes
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Fold
- fold in
Origin of Fold
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From Middle English fold, fald, from Old English fald, falæd, falod (“fold, stall, stable, cattle-pen”), from Proto-Germanic *faludaz (“enclosure”). Akin to Scots fald, fauld (“an enclosure for livestock”), Dutch vaalt (“dung heap”), Middle Low German valt, vālt (“an inclosed space, a yard”), Danish fold (“pen for herbivorous livestock”), Swedish fålla (“corral, pen, pound”).
From Wiktionary
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From Middle English, from Old English -feald (“-fold"), from Proto-Germanic *-falþaz (“-fold"), from Proto-Indo-European *-poltos (“-fold"). Cognate with Dutch -voud, German -falt, Swedish -faldig (“-fold"), Latin -plus, -plex, Ancient Greek -παλτος (-paltos), -πλος (-paltos, -plos). More at fold.
From Wiktionary
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From Middle English, from Old English folde (“earth, land, country, district, region, territory, ground, soil, clay”), from Proto-Germanic *fuldǭ (“ground, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“field, plain”). Cognate with Norwegian and Icelandic fold (“land, earth, meadow”).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English folden from Old English fealdan, faldan pel-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Middle English from Old English -feald, -fald pel-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Middle English from Old English -feald, -fald pel-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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ME -fold, -fald < OE -feald: see fold
From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition
Middle English from Old English fald
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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