fell means in some coutry hill and another discription is stubborn now where it comes from is the million dollar question as there is a fella river and fella river valley in italy near the border of austria and the river runs into slovenia napoleon had a battle there called the battle of travis and at one stage this terorty was occupied by the germans there is slovakian german and italian in this aria and there is also a lot of fella's in germany in the 1700-1800 near westerfallen