Old English · noun
fot
Normalised fōt
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine
- Declension
- strong consonant stem
- IPA
- /foːt/
- Syllables
- foːt (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- footlocomotionmetricalmetrical footprosodyhumansfollowingyard
Meaning
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a foot, in the following senses:; an organ in humans and animals used for locomotion
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 ġebun
We tried to reach the village on foot (literally "on feet").
Hefiġere iċ eom miċle þonne sē hāra stān -
a foot, in the following senses:; a unit of length, especially a third of a yard
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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...
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the base or bottom of something
Hīe wīcodon æt þæs beorges fēt.
They camped at the foot of the mountain.
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a metrical foot
Declension
All forms (5)
Etymology
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. Cognates Germanic cognates include Old Frisian fōt, Old Saxon fōt (Dutch voet), Old High German fuoȥ (German Fuß…
Descendants
foot
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