English

fogfall

From fog + fall.

A compound of fog + fall

English foggy ‘covered with tall grass’

English fog

Proto-Indo-European *h₃elh₁- ‘to collapse’

Proto-Germanic *fallaną ‘to fall’

Proto-West Germanic *fallan ‘to fall’

Old English feallan ‘to fall’

Middle English fallen ‘to fall’

English fall

Today it means

noun The act or time of a cloud of fog falling over an area.

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