fot

fot

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /foːt/

fot (plural feet or fot or fotes)

1. foot (appendage used for motion and support)
2. foot (unit for measuring length; also often used to indicate a short distance)
3. (square) foot (unit for measuring area)
4. The bottom, lower part or foundation of something; the foot of a flight of stairs.
5. A leg-like support which a table or chair stands on; the foot of a table or chair.
6. The power of using one's feet (i.e. to travel or stand up).
7. foot (unit for measuring rhythm in poetry)
8. (figuratively) An individual human being.
9. The distinctive footprints left behind by a creature; an animal track.
10. The area where the foot rests in a bed or tomb; the end of a bed of tomb.

By far the most common plural form is feet; fotes is relatively rare, and fot is usually only used in contexts of the unit of length.

• footeles
• footen
• fot hot
• foteball
• foted
• foteman
• fotyng

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

• “fọ̄t (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-17.

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.

• 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-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds, lengthened o-grade of *ped- (“foot”). Germanic cognates include Old Frisian fōt, Old Saxon fōt (Dutch voet), Old High German fuoz (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).

• IPA^(key): /foːt/

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

      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

• fiþerfōt
• fōtlīċ
• fōtmǣlum
• hwītfōt
• wannfōt

• Middle English: fot, foot
  • English: foot
  • Scots: fut, fute, fuit, fit
  • Yola: voote

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

fot m

1. foot

• Middle Low German: vōt
  • Low German:
    • German Low German: Voot

      Hamburgisch: Foot

    • Westphalian:

      Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Feot

      Westmünsterländisch: Foot

      Märkisch: Faut

  • Plautdietsch: Foot

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; the body part touching the ground while standing or walking
2. a foot; the part of something which is in contact with the underlying surface
3. a foot; the end opposite to the head or the top
4. a foot (length measurement unit; with various definitions)

• huvud
• topp

• fot in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

Borrowed from French forêt.

fot (plural fots)

1. forest