fellen

fellen

1. inflection of fel:
   1. masculine accusative/dative singular
   2. neuter dative singular
   3. dative plural

Inherited from Anglian Old English fellan, Mercian Old English fællan and West Saxon Old English fiellan, from Proto-West Germanic *fallijan, from Proto-Germanic *fallijaną, causative of *fallaną (see fallen).

• felle
• fallen, fællen, feollen, vallen (Early Middle English, Worcestershire)
• fell (Northern); falle, vellen (West Midland)

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛlən/
• IPA^(key): /ˈvylən/ (Southern)
• IPA^(key): /ˈvalən/, /ˈvɛlən/ (Southwest Midland)

fellen (third-person singular simple present felleth, present participle fellynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle felled)

1. (transitive) To cause to drop or fall:
   1. To fell or chop; to cause to topple.
      • 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Knẏghtes Tale”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 23, recto:

        The brıghte swerdes / wenten to and fro / So hıdouſlẏ / that wıth the leeſte ſtrook / It ſemed / as ıt wolde felle an ook

        The gleaming swords went back and forth / so violently that with the smallest stroke, / it seemed like it'd topple an oak.

   2. To knock or strike down with an attack.
   3. To demolish a building or structure.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To cease, end, or stop:
   1. To defeat, overcome, or overthrow.
   2. To eliminate or suppress (an emotion)
   3. To kill; to end the life of.
3. (transitive, figuratively) To debase or ruin morally.
4. (transitive, rare) To mow (a lawn)

• fellere

• English: fell
• Middle Scots: fell
  • Scots: fell

• “fellen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “fell, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

fellen

1. alternative form of fillen

• fella

fellen m or f

1. definite masculine singular of felle

From fell +‎ -en.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfel.len/, [ˈfeɫ.ɫen]

fellen

1. made of skin

• dēorfellen

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “fellen”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.