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From Middle High German -valt, from Old High German -falt, from Proto-West Germanic *-falþ, from Proto-Germanic *-falþaz. Cognate with English -fold.

-falt f

1. -fold
2. -ness

• Vielfalt
• Sorgfalt
• Einfalt

• “-falt” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (1883), “-falt”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Neuter of -fald.

-falt

1. -fold; suffixing a number, creating an adverb

• -faldig

• “falt”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “fald”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

• flat