> (Old English -feald, Northumbrian -fald, Middle English -fald, -fold), corresponds to Old Frisian, Old Saxon -fald (Dutch -voud), Old High German -falt (Middle High German -valt, modern German -falt), Old Norse -faldr (Swedish -fald, Danish -fold), Gothic -falþs; cognate with fold v.1, and with the equivalent Greek -παλτος, -πλασιος, also, more remotely, with Greek -πλο- in ἁπλός single, διπλός double (= Latin duplus), and probably with the Latin (sim-, du-, tri-) plex. Like the Greek and Latin equivalents, the Germanic suffix is appended to cardinal numerals (and adjectives meaning ‘man…