fot

• Rhymes: -ot

fot

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

• fod, foȝt, foit, foot, foote, fote, fout, fut, vot

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

• IPA^(key): /foːt/

fot (plural feet or (measure) 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.)‎^[2], published c. 1410, Apocalips 1:17, folio 117, verso, 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.

• English: foot (see there for further descendants)

  West Riding: fooit

• Scots: fit, fuit, fut, fute
• Yola: voote

• “fọ̄t, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 May 2018.

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

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

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

• “fot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

• IPA^(key): /fuːt/

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

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

• “fot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

The nominative and accusative plural fēt is the result of an umlaut: the first vowel in Proto-West Germanic plural *fōti shifted into a close-mid front rounded vowel in order to harmonize it with the last vowel. After speakers dropped the last vowel, the front rounded vowel became unrounded, although some dialects (largely the Anglian ones) retained the rounded vowel longer than West Saxon did.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /foːt/
• Rhymes: -oːt

fōt m (nominative plural fēt)

1. a foot, in the following senses:
   1. (anatomy) an organ in humans and animals used for locomotion
      • Exeter Book, riddle 40

        Hefiġere iċ eom miċle þonne sē hāra stān
        oþþe unlȳtel lēades clympre,
        lēohtre iċ eom miċle þonne þēs lȳtla wyrm
        þe hēr on flōde gǣð fōtum dryġe.

        I am much heavier than the gray stone
        or an un-little clump of lead,
        I am much lighter than this little bug
        that walks here on the water with dry feet

        • 10th century, The Seafarer:

          þonne hē be clifum cnossað. · Calde ġeþrungen
          wǣron mīne fēt, · forste ġebunden,
          caldum clommum, · þǣr þā ċeare sēofedun.
          Hāt ymb heortan · hungor innan slāt
          merewērġes mōd. · Þæt sē mon ne wāt

          then it beats near cliffs. My feet were
          squeezed by cold, bound by frost,
          with cold fetters, when there we bemoaned
          sorrows. Hot about heart, hunger within tore
          a sea-weary mind. The man didn't know that,

        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 ells 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

Strong consonant stem:

A rare nominative/accusative plural fōtas is also attested.

• -fēte
• fōtlīċ
• fōtmǣlum
• hwītfōt

• Middle English: fot, fod, foȝt, foit, foot, foote, fote, fout, fut, vot
  • English: foot (see there for further descendants)

    West Riding: fooit

  • Scots: fit, fuit, fut, fute
  • Yola: voote

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸod̪/

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

fot m (genitive fuit)

1. length

• airet
• fota

• Middle Irish: fot, fat
  • Irish: fad
  • Manx: fod (“at length”)
  • Scottish Gaelic: fad

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fot, fat”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Univerbation of fo do.

fot

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

• Irish: fád, fód

• fuot

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

fot m

1. foot

• Middle Low German: vôt
  • Low German: Foot, voot

    Hamburgisch: Foot

    Westphalian:

    Lippisch: Féut m

    Ravensbergisch: Feot

    Westmünsterländisch: Foot

    Märkisch: Faut

  • Plautdietsch: Foot

Borrowed from Middle Low German vāt / vat.

fot m inan

1. barrel, vat

• 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

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

• IPA^(key): /fuːt/

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fot c

1. (anatomy) a foot (body part touching the ground while standing or walking)

   Synonym: (colloquial, cutesy) fossing

   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]‎^[3]:

     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)

   Coordinate terms: huvud, topp

4. a foot (unit of length with various definitions)

• tå

• “fot”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Svensk MeSH

Borrowed from French forêt.

fot (genitive fota, plural fots)

1. forest

• “fot”, in Vödabuk (in English, Esperanto, and Volapük)