Wiktionary

fot

See also: FOT, föt, and főt

Catalan

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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fot

  1. inflection of fotre:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old English fōt, from Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fot (plural feet or fot or (rare) fotes)

  2. 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 […]
  3. The use of one's feet (to move or stand).
  4. An animal's track or prints.
  5. One of a set of units of measurement:
    1. foot (unit for measuring length)
    2. square foot (unit for measuring area)
    3. (prosody) A metrical foot
  6. The bottom or foundation of something (e.g. stairs):
    1. The foot (leg-like support) of a table or chair.
    2. The end of a bed or tomb (where the foot rests).
  7. (figurative) An individual; a human.

Usage notes

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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

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Descendants

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  • English: foot (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: fit, fuit, fut, fute
  • Yola: voote

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Old Norse fótr, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds.

Noun

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fot m (definite singular foten, indefinite plural føtter, definite plural føttene)

  1. (anatomy) a foot
  2. a foot (unit of measurement = 12 inches)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Old Norse fótr, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Akin to English foot, Latin pēs, and Ancient Greek πούς (poús).

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Noun

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fot m (definite singular foten, indefinite plural føter, definite plural føtene)

  1. (anatomy) a foot
  2. a foot (unit of measurement: 12 inches)

Inflection

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Historical inflection of fot
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
Aasen1 Fot Foten Føter Føterne
1901 føter (føtar) føterne (føtane)
1917 føter [føtter] føtene2 [føttene]
1938 (current) fot foten føter føtene
  • 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.

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Old English

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Mennisc fōt (līchamdǣl)

Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *fōt.

Cognates

Germanic cognates include Old Frisian fōt, Old Saxon fōt (Dutch voet), Old High German fuoȥ (German Fuß), Old Norse fótr (Danish fod, Swedish fot), Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐍄𐌿𐍃 (fōtus). The Proto-Indo-European root was also the source of Sanskrit पद् (pád), Ancient Greek πούς (poús) (genitive ποδός (podós)); Doric πῶς (pôs), Latin pēs (genitive pedis).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fōt m (nominative plural fēt)

  1. a foot, in the following senses:
    1. (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").
    2. a unit of length, especially a third of a yard
      • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
        ...⁊ sē weall wæs XX fōta þicce, ⁊ XL elna hēah...
        ...and the wall was twenty feet thick, and forty cubits tall...
        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.
    3. the base or bottom of something
      Hīe wīcodon æt þæs beorges fēt.
      They camped at the foot of the mountain.
    4. (prosody) a metrical foot

Declension

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Strong consonant stem:

singular plural
nominative fōt fēt
accusative fōt fēt
genitive fōtes fōta
dative fēt fōtum

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Old Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Celtic *wazdos, which could be from the same root as *wāstos (“empty”).

Noun

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fot m (genitive fuit)

  1. length
Declension
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Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative fot — —
vocative fuit — —
accusative fotN — —
genitive fuitL — —
dative futL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization
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Descendants
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  • Middle Irish: fot, fat
    • Irish: fad
    • Manx: fod (“at length”)
    • Scottish Gaelic: fad

Further reading

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Etymology 2

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Univerbation of fo do

Determiner

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fot

  1. fo + do (“your sg”, triggers lenition): under (etc.) your sg
Descendants
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Mutation

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Mutation of fot
radical lenition nasalization
fot ḟot fot
pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Old Saxon

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds.

Noun

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fot m

  1. foot

Declension

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fōt (masculine i-stem)
singular plural
nominative fōt fōt
accusative fōt fōt
genitive fōties fōtiō
dative fōtie fōtium
instrumental — —

Descendants

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  • Middle Low German: vôt
    • Low German: Foot
      • German Low German: Voot
        Hamburgisch: Foot
        Westphalian:
        Lippisch: Féut m
        Ravensbergisch: Feot
        Westmünsterländisch: Foot
        Märkisch: Faut
    • Plautdietsch: Foot

Polabian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle Low German vāt / vat.

Noun

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fot m inan

  1. barrel, vat

References

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  • The template Template:R:pox:SejDp does not use the parameter(s): 
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    Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.    Polański, Kazimierz (1994) “fot”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 6 (un – źornü), Warszawa: Energeia, →ISBN, page 1096
  • Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “vot”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 178
  • Olesch, Reinhold (1973) “Wôt”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes 3: T – Z, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 1509

Swedish

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fötter
 
fötter på fågel [feet of a bird]

Etymology

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From Old Swedish fōter, from Old Norse fótr, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fuːt/
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Noun

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fot c

  1. (anatomy) a foot (body part touching the ground while standing or walking)
    När man står upp så har man fötterna på backen
    When you stand up, your feet are on the ground
    • 2001, Caramell, “Caramelldansen [The Caramell dance ("karamell" is the usual spelling)]”, in Supergott [Super tasty]‎[2]:
      Så rör på era fötter (o-a-a-a), och vicka era höfter (o-la-la-la). Gör som vi till denna melodi.
      So move your feet (o-a-a-a), and wiggle your hips (o-la-la-la). Do as we do [do as we] to this melody.
  2. a foot (part of something in contact with the underlying surface)
    fötterna på pallen
    the feet of the stool
  3. a foot (end opposite the head or the top)
  4. a foot (unit of length with various definitions)

Declension

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Declension of fot 1-3
nominative genitive
singular indefinite fot fots
definite foten fotens
plural indefinite fötter fötters
definite fötterna fötternas
Declension of fot 4
nominative genitive
singular indefinite fot fots
definite fot fots
plural indefinite — —
definite — —

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Volapük

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French forêt.

Noun

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fot (nominative plural fots)

  1. forest

Declension

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Declension of fot
singular plural
nominative fot fots
genitive fota fotas
dative fote fotes
accusative foti fotis
vocative 1 o fot! o fots!
predicative 2 fotu fotus

1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

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