fot
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ot
Verb edit
fot
- inflection of fotre:
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old English fōt, from Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fot (plural feet or fot or (rare) fotes)
- A foot (appendage used for motion and support)
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)[1], published c. 1410, Apocalips 1:17, page 117v, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
- ⁊ whanne I hadde ſeyn hym .· I felde doun at his feet as deed / ⁊ he puttide his riȝthond on me .· ⁊ ſeide / nyle þou dꝛede I am þe firſte ⁊ þe laſte […]
- And when I saw him, I fell down at his feet like I was dead. But he placed his right hand on me and said, "Don't be afraid; I am the first and the last […]
- The use of one's feet (to move or stand).
- An animal's track or prints.
- One of a set of units of measurement:
- foot (unit for measuring length)
- square foot (unit for measuring area)
- (prosody) A metrical foot
- The bottom or foundation of something (e.g. stairs):
- (figurative) An individual; a human.
Usage notes edit
By far the most common plural form is feet; fotes is relatively rare, and fot is usually only used for the unit of length.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- “fọ̄t, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-17.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse fótr, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds.
Noun edit
fot m (definite singular foten, indefinite plural føtter, definite plural føttene)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “fot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse fótr, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Akin to English foot, Latin pēs, and Ancient Greek πούς (poús).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fot m (definite singular foten, indefinite plural føter, definite plural føtene)
Inflection edit
Historical inflection of fot
Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen. 1Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century. 2Form had been allowed for schoolchildren as of 1910. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “fot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *fōt.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fōt m (nominative plural fēt)
- a foot, in the following senses:
- (anatomy) an organ in humans and animals used for locomotion
- Iċ dypte mīnne fōt on þæt wæter.
- I dipped my foot into the water.
- Wē ongunnon þæt þorp ġenēahlǣċan on fōtum.
- We tried to reach the village on foot (literally "on feet").
- a unit of length, especially a third of a yard
- Þæt wæter is þrītiġ fōta dēop.
- The water is thirty feet deep.
- Hēo is fīf fōta lang and þrēora ynċa.
- She is five foot, three inches tall.
- the base or bottom of something
- Hīe wīcodon æt þæs beorges fēt.
- They camped at the foot of the mountain.
- (prosody) a metrical foot
- (anatomy) an organ in humans and animals used for locomotion
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Old Saxon edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds.
Noun edit
fot m
Declension edit
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | fōt | fōt |
| accusative | fōt | fōt |
| genitive | fōties | fōtiō |
| dative | fōtie | fōtium |
| instrumental | — | — |
Descendants edit
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Swedish fōter, from Old Norse fótr, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fot c
- (anatomy) a foot; the body part touching the ground while standing or walking
- a foot; the part of something which is in contact with the underlying surface
- a foot; the end opposite to the head or the top
- a foot (length measurement unit; with various definitions)
Declension edit
| Declension of fot 1-3 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | fot | foten | fötter | fötterna |
| Genitive | fots | fotens | fötters | fötternas |
| Declension of fot 4 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | fot | fot | — | — |
| Genitive | fots | fots | — | — |
Antonyms edit
Derived terms edit
- barfota
- fota
- fotabjället
- fotapall
- fotarbete
- fotavtryck
- fotbad
- fotbeklädnad
- fotblad
- fotboja
- fotboll (“soccer, football”)
- fotbroms
- fotdyna
- fotfel
- fotfolk
- fotfäste
- fotgängare (“pedestrian”)
- fotisättning
- fotknöl
- fotlapp
- fotled (“ankle”)
- fotlänk
- fotnot (“footnote”)
- fotpall
- fotparad
- fotpatrullering
- fotplatta
- fotriktig
- fotsack
- fotsbred
- fotsbredd
- fotsdjup
- fotsid
- fotskada
- fotskadad
- fotskrapa
- fotslång
- fotsoldat
- fotspår (“footprint, footstep”)
- fotsteg
- fotstjock
- fotställ
- fotställning
- fotstöd
- fotsula (“sole of the foot”)
- fotsvamp
- fotsvett
- fotterapeut
- fotvalv
- fotvandra
- fotvandring
- fotvård
- fotvårta
- fotvärmare
- fotända
- fotände
- fyrfota
- fäfot (“cow hoof”)
- gå till fots
- händer och fötter
- julgransfot (“a small pot in which a Christmas tree is placed”)
- lampfot
- koloss på lerfötter
- myntfot
- plattfot
- på stående fot
- pressarfot
- sidfot (“page footer”)
- stå på god fot med
- takfot
- trefot (“tripod”)
- tusenfoting
- versfot
- ömfot
- ömfotad
References edit
Volapük edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
fot (nominative plural fots)