Cognate Set 212 – Meaning: fall

	Language	Lexeme	Native script	Phonetic	Phonemic	Notes
110	Danish	falde		ˈfalə
116	Dutch	vallen		ˈvɑlə(n)
112	English	fall			fɔːl	Middle English fallen, Old English feallan
104	Faroese	falla		ˈfad̥la
117	Flemish	vallen
114	Frisian	falle		ˈfɔlə
122	German	fallen		ˈfaln̩	ˈfalən
103	Icelandic	falla		ˈfad̥la
105	Norwegian: Bokmål	falle		ˈfɑ̀lːə	ˈfɑ̀lːɛ
109	Swedish	falla		ˈfàlːa
121	Luxembourgish	falen		ˈfaːlən	ˈfaːlən
107	Elfdalian	folla		ˈfòlːɑ	ˈfòlːɑ
108	Old Swedish	falla		ˈfalːa	falːa
119	Old High German	fallan		ˈfallan	ˈfallan
113	Old Frisian	falla		ˈfalla	ˈfalla
120	Middle High German	vallen		ˈfallən	ˈfallən
111	Old English	feallan		ˈfæɑ̯llɑn	ˈfæɑ̯llɑn
118	Old Saxon	fallan		ˈfallan	ˈfallan
115	Middle Dutch	vallen		ˈvallən	ˈvallən
102	Old Icelandic	falla		ˈfalːa	ˈfalːa
106	Norwegian: Nynorsk	falle		ˈfɑ̀lːə	ˈfɑ̀lːɛ	all very common

References

Kroonen, Guus: 125-126

S.v. Proto-Germanic *fallan- 'to fall'. K. adopts a new Indo-European etymology following Praust ("What Greek can tell us about the prehistory of English 'to fall'" unpublished paper at the conference Greek and Latin from an Indo-European from an Indo-European Perspective, Cambridge, July 2005) and [Neri 2007](src-635) as from a univerbation of the preverb *h₂po- and the root *h₃elh₁- 'to fall' (cf. Hitt. ḫallannai ~ ḫallannii̯anzi 'to trample down, flatten', Gk. ὄλλυμι 'destroy, kill, lose').

Kümmel, Martin Joachim:

New etymology to PIE *h₃elh₁- 'zugunde gehen' has been accepted and included in the addenda and corrigenda to LIV².

Neri, Sergio

Rix, Helmut: 463-464

[Germanic verbs listed in the LIV² under *peh₃lH- 'fallen'. New etymology to *h₃elh₁- accepted in the LIV² Addenda and Corrigenda.]