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Etymology 1[]
From Old English fealh (“‘fallow land’”), from the Proto-Germanic *falgo, perhaps a derivation of Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“‘to turn’”), assimilated in English to the adjective fallow because of the color of plowed earth. Originally "plowed land", then "land plowed but not planted"
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Fallow (s)
- Template:Agriculture Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
- Template:Agriculture Uncultivated land.
- Template:Agriculture An area of fallow land.
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Adjective[]
fallow
- (of agricultural land) Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
- Inactive; undeveloped.
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- apple-fallow
- fallow chat
- fallow deer
- fallow finch
- fallowness
- lay fallow
- lie fallow
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Verb[]
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to Fallow (third-person singular simple present -, present participle -, simple past and past participle -)
- (transitive) To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.
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- fallowed
- fallowing
- re-fallow
- thry-fallow
- trifallow
- twifallow, twyfallow
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Etymology 2[]
From Middle English falow from Old English fealu; akin to Old High German falo (“‘pale, fallow’”), Latin palleo (“‘to be pale’”), Ancient Greek πολιός (polios), “‘gray’”), Armenian [[ալիք#Template:Hy|ալիք]] (alik'), “‘wave, gray hair’”) (Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 2006). Compare German falb.
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Fallow (comparative {{{1}}}, superlative {{{2}}})
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- A pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.
Related terms[]
- fallow deer
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- Template:R:Online Etymology Dictionary
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