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This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.
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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *fōts.
Noun
*fōt m[1]
- foot
- a unit of length
Inflection
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Singular
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*fōt
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| Genitive
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*fōti
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Singular
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Plural
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| Nominative
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*fōt
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*fōti
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| Accusative
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*fōtu
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*fōti
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| Genitive
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*fōti
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*fōtō
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| Dative
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*fōti
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*fōtum
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| Instrumental
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*fōti
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*fōtum
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Derived terms
Descendants
- Old English: fōt
- Middle English: fot, fod, foȝt, foit, foot, foote, fote, fout, fut, vot
- English: foot (see there for further descendants)
- English: (West Yorkshire) fooit
- Scots: fit, fuit, fut, fute
- Yola: voote
- Old Frisian: fōt
- North Frisian:
- Föhr-Amrum: fut
- Mooring: fötj
- Sylt: Fut
- Saterland Frisian: Fout
- West Frisian: foet
- Old Saxon: fōt, fuot
- 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
- Old Dutch: fuot
- Old High German: fuoȥ
References
- ^ Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 117: “*fōt”