Where does “fald” come from?

fald (Middle English) comes from Old English falod, from Hungarian -öd, from Hungarian -ö-, from Hungarian -d, from Middle Welsh -nt — 3rd person plural verb ending.

Ancestry of “fald”, step by step

fald traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Old English falod

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishfalodfold, stall, stable, cattle-pen
2Hungarian-ödyour; Used to form the second-person singular...
3Hungarian-ö-linking vowel
4Hungarian-dyour; Used in the second-person singular definite...
5Middle Welsh-nt3rd person plural verb ending

via Old English fald

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishfald—
2Proto-Germanicfaludazan enclosed space, enclosure

via Old English falæd

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishfalæd—
Every word from Middle Welsh -nt →Every word from Hungarian -d →Every word from Hungarian -öd →