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tó-feallan

  • verb [ strong ]
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Grammar
tó-feallan, p. -feóll; pp. -feallen
Wright's OE grammar
§656;
To fall to pieces, fall away, collapse, fall down
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  • Ðá hié æt hiora theatrum wǽron, ðá hit eall tófeóll

    (collapsa est

    ).
      Ors. 6, 2; Swt. 256, 11.
  • Ðá byfode seó eorðe, and stánas burstan, and stánweallas tófeóllan,

      Shrn. 67, 19: Homl. Th. ii. 216, 4.
  • Him ða lima calic tófeóllan

    all his limbs fell off,

      Shrn. 62, 3.
Etymology
[Scullen stanwalles biuoren him tofallen, Laym. 18867. Alls þatt temmple oferr hemm all tofelle, Orm. 16185. Þer no guod red ne ys þet uolk toualþ (populus corruet, Prov. 11. 14), Ayenb. 184, 11. O. Sax. te-fallan to fall down (of a house): O. H. Ger. ze-, zer-fallan cadere, concidere, diruere: Ger. zer-fallen.]
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v. tó-dreósan; tó-fillan.
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