val

Shortening.

val (countable and uncountable, plural vals)

1. (informal) Valium.
   • 1997 May 29, Kate Sholl, “Re: MED: Pain relief in Neck?”, in alt.med.fibromyalgia, Usenet‎:

     and i must be on that list of people that need to get knocked over with a hammer 'cause vicodin and val don't knock me out.

   • 1998 December 29, rob [username], “Re: Depression and MS(leg/feet burning pain)”, in alt.support.mult-sclerosis, Usenet‎:

     I would think though that whatever the reason for a panic attack valium would be great. I know that if my house was on fire and I was on 15mg of val It^[sic] would take a lot more energy than I had, to panic. ;^)

   • 2002 June 28, FllSpdAhd1 [username], “Re: Valium?”, in rec.pets.cats.health+behav, Usenet‎:

     I'm a medic and phenobarb is the primary drug for true seizures, but the OP states the cat presents seizure like behavior at the sound of her voice. I don't know where any of you are from, but we don't treat seizures with val.

• AVL, Vla., lav

From Dutch vallen

• IPA^(key): /fal/

val (present val, present participle vallende, past participle geval)

1. to fall

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈval/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈbal/
• Rhymes: -al

val m (plural vals)

1. voucher

val

1. third-person singular present indicative form of valer
2. second-person singular imperative form of valer

• IPA^(key): /val/
• Rhymes: -al

val m

1. bulwark, rampart

• val in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• val in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

• Rhymes: -ɑl
• IPA^(key): /vɑl/

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From the verb vallen (“to fall”).

val m (plural vallen, diminutive valletje n)

1. fall (act of falling)
2. downfall, demise

   Synonym: ondergang

3. trap, snare
4. (in compounds) case
5. (in compounds) nightfall

• avondval
• bouwval
• maatval
• naamval
• nachtval
• regenval
• rijmval
• sneeuwval
• toonval
• verzenval
• waterval
• valavond
• valkuil
• valuur
• valstrik

val m (plural vallen, diminutive valletje n)

1. (obsolete) catfish

   Synonym: meerval

• meerval

See the etymology of the main entry.

val

1. first-person singular present indicative of vallen
2. imperative of vallen

• vla

from Proto-Germanic *walō

• Rhymes: -ɛaːl

val n (genitive singular vals, plural val)

1. choice
2. (politics) election
3. quality

From Old French val, from Latin vallis, vallem.

• IPA^(key): /val/

val m (plural vaux)

1. (literary) valley, vale

• vallée
• vallon

• VAL

• “val” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin vallis, vallem.

val f (plural valis)

1. valley

• valdade

13th century. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese vale, from Latin vallis, vallem.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbal]

val m (plural vales)

1. valley
   • c1350, Kevin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto Padre Sarmiento, page 122:

     Et ao ferir, braadarõ et deron tan grãdes vozes que os vales rretenyam.

     As they clashed, they shouted and cried so aloud that the valleys resounded.

• “vale” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “vale” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “val” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “val” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “val” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /vaːl/
• Rhymes: -aːl

val n

1. choice
2. selection

• náttúruval
• kynbundið val

val f (invariable)

1. Apocopic form of valle

• (Courland) va'l

Related to Finnish valo.

val

1. light

Old High German val

val m

1. fall
2. (grammar) case
   • 14th century, Heinrich von Mügeln, Der meide krancz (Codex Palatinus germanicus (Cod. Pal. germ.) 14)

     Wÿ man dy namen brechen ſol

     Nach iren vellen hin czu cal

     [the following verses contain a declension of Petrus (genitive Petri, dative Petro, accusative Petrum, vocative Petre and ablative Petro)]

     How one shall inflect/decline (literally break) the nouns

     After their cases over to number

• German: Fall

From Old Norse vaðill (“ford, shallow water”).

val m (definite singular valen, indefinite plural valer, definite plural valene)

1. inlet, shallow bay

From Old Norse valr (“the fallen”).

val m (definite singular valen, indefinite plural valer, definite plural valene)

1. (poetic) battlefield

• “val” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse val.

• IPA^(key): /ʋɑːl/

val n (definite singular valet, indefinite plural val, definite plural vala)

1. a choice

   Du har ikkje noko val.

   You don't have a choice.

2. election

   Kven skal du røysta på til valet?

   Who are you going to vote for in the election?

• (election) røysting

• utval
• valkamp

• valg (Bokmål)

• “val” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• vaul

From Latin vallis, vallem.

val m (oblique plural vaus or vax or vals, nominative singular vaus or vax or vals, nominative plural val)

1. valley

• English: vale (borrowed)
• French: val

val m

1. fall

• Middle High German: val
  • German: Fall

val

1. (Portugal) third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of valer

val m (plural vales)

1. Apocopic form of vale: valley

• vale

From a Common Slavic valŭ (Proto-Slavic *valъ), from Proto-Indo-European *wel(H)- (“to turn, roll”). Compare Serbo-Croatian val; cf. also Albanian valë.

val n (plural valuri)

1. wave

• undă

• învălura
• învălui
• vălări

• năvăli
• prăvăli
• valmă

From Latin vallum (“wall, rampart”), probably a later borrowing; cf. German Wall, Italian vallo, also English wall

val n (plural valuri)

1. earth rampart which served in antiquity as a military stronghold

• văl

From Latin vallis, vallem.

val f (plural vals)

1. valley

From Proto-Slavic *valъ, from Proto-Indo-European *wel(H)- (“to turn, roll”).

• IPA^(key): /ʋâːl/

vȃl m (Cyrillic spelling ва̑л)

1. (regional, Croatia) wave (a long body of water curling into an arched form)

• tȁlās

From Proto-Slavic *valъ, from Proto-Indo-European *wel(H)- (“to turn, roll”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋáːl/
• Tonal orthography: vȃl

vál m inan (genitive vála, nominative plural valôvi or váli)

1. wave, undulation

• valováti
• valovéti
• valovíti
• valôven

• IPA^(key): /ˈbal/

val m (plural valles)

1. Apocopic form of valle valley

• Valparaíso

val

1. Apocopic form of vale: is worth

   mi casa y mi hogar cien doblas val. (val rhymes with hogar, assonant rhyme)

   there's no place like home.

In Old Spanish, after the consonants /d/, /n/, /l/, /ll/, /r/, and /z/, a final /-e/ was frequently elided, as in pid, vien, val, quier, faz, versus the modern forms of pide, viene, vale, quiere, and hace (in modern Spanish, a few apocopes following coronal consonants are still preserved: buen, gran, san, derived from bueno, grande, and santo).

• “val” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

From Old Swedish hval, from Old Norse hvalr, from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos (“sheatfish”).

• IPA^(key): /vɑːl/

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val c

1. whale

From Old Norse val.

• IPA^(key): /vɑːl/

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val n

1. an election[1]
2. a choice

• IPA^(key): /val/
• Hyphenation: vàl

From Latin vallis, vallem.

val f (plural val)

1. valley

• vałe