falleth

Comes tumbling earthward

Falleth is an archaic form of "falls," using the old English third-person singular ending -eth.

It appears in the King James Bible and other early modern texts: The rain falleth on the just and the unjust.

Outside quotation or deliberate archaism, the form is obsolete.

descent

droppeth

Archaic for descends

downward · precipice

biblical

cometh

Archaic form of arrives

doth · hath · speaketh · riseth · abideth · endureth · remaineth · yieldeth · turneth · returneth

ruin

endeth

Archaic form of concludes

defeat · kingdom · empire · mighty · proud · prideful · hubris

Opposites
vertical motion

fallethriseth

Archaic third-person ascends

lifteth · rises · ascends · levitates · goes up

state/condition

fallethstandeth

Old English for stands

endureth · remaineth · riseth · abideth

linguistic register

fallethfalls

Descends or declines

drops · descends · tumbles · plummets · sinks

Phrases
Family

fallen, faller, fallers, crestfallen, befallen

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