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fod

See also: FOD, fód, fòd, föd, főd, and fød

English

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Etymology

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From a shortening of forehead, folk etymology an acronym for "forehead of doom".

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Noun

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fod (plural fods)

  1. (slang, dialectal, Northern England) forehead, particularly a large one

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Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse fótr, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, cognate with English foot, German Fuß, Dutch voet. The Germanic noun goes back to Proto-Indo-European *pṓds (“foot”), which is also the source of Latin pēs, Ancient Greek πούς (poús).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈfoˀð], [ˈfoðˀ]

Noun

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fod c (singular definite foden, plural indefinite fødder or (as a measure) fod)

  1. (anatomy) foot
  2. (figuratively) the base or lower part of something, e.g. a page or a mountain
  4. (historical or referring to foreign cultures) foot, unit of measure, in Denmark 31.4 cm until 1907, equal to 12 tommer (inches)
  5. (prosody or phonology, rare) foot, a rhythmical unit

Inflection

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Declension of fod
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fod foden fødder
(as a measure) fod 		fødderne
(as a measure) fodene
genitive fods fodens fødders
(as a measure) fods 		føddernes
(as a measure) fodenes

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from fod

Middle English

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Noun

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fod

  1. Alternative form of fot

Volapük

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Noun

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fod (nominative plural fods)

  1. scythe

Declension

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declension of fod
singular plural
nominative fod fods
genitive foda fodas
dative fode fodes
accusative fodi fodis
vocative 1 o fod! o fods!
predicative 2 fodu fodus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

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Terms derived from fod

Welsh

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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fod

  1. Soft mutation of bod.

Mutation

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
bod fod mod unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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