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 fot or (rare) fotes)

1. 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.)‎, 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 […]

2. The use of one's feet (to move or stand).
3. An animal's track or prints.
4. 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
5. 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).
6. (figurative) An individual; a human.

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

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

• 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

• -fēte
• fōtlīċ
• fōtmǣlum
• hwītfōt

• Middle English: fot, fod, foȝt, foit, foot, foote, fote, fout, fut, vot
  • English: foot (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: fit, fuit, fut, fute
  • Yola: voote

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

fot m

1. foot

• Middle Low German: vôt
  • Low German:
    • German Low German: Voot

      Hamburgisch: Foot

      Westphalian:

      Lippisch: Féut m

      Ravensbergisch: 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 (SAOL)

Borrowed from French forêt.

fot (nominative plural fots)

1. forest