The story
- Old English · inherited fromfelafeald
- Middle English · inherited fromfelefold
- English todayfeelefold
From Middle English felefold, felefolde (“multiple, many; varied, diverse”), from Old English felafeald, felefeald (“manifold, many times over”), equivalent to fele (“many”) + -fold. Compare Dutch veelvoud, German Vielfalt.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.