An Irish Etymology for Chaucer's Falding ( Coarse Woollen Cloth )

Author / Editor
Breeze, Andrew.

Title
An Irish Etymology for Chaucer's Falding ( Coarse Woollen Cloth )

Published
Chaucer Review 35: 112-14, 2000.

Description
Used twice in Chaucer (1.391 and 1.3213), Middle English "falding" (like Welsh "ffaling") derives from Irish "fallaing."

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.