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FÓT

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
FÓT, nom. acc: gen. fótes; dat. fét, fóte; pl. nom. acc. fét, fótas; gen. fóta; dat. inst. fótum; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§7; §26; §41; §47; §128; §129; §163; §194; §211; §213; §215; §217; §218; §231; §232; §295; §298; §331; §408; §409; §562;
a FOOT; pés, gen. pĕdis; m
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  • Gyf ðín hand oððe ðín fót ðé swícaþ

    si mănus tua, vel pēs tuus scandălīzat te,

    • Mt. Bos. 18, 8.

  • Ne come me fót ofermódignysse

    ne vĕniat mihi pēs superbiæ,

    • Ps. Spl. 35, 12.

  • Swá his fót gestóp

    where his foot stepped,

    • Andr. Kmbl. 3163
      • ;
    • An. 1584.

  • Námen ðá ðet fótspure ðe wæs undernæðen his fóte

    then [they] took the footstool, that was underneath his foot,

    • Chr. 1070
      • ;
    • Erl. 209, 8.

  • Ðæt ic heonon nelle fleón fótes trym

    I will not flee hence a footstep,

    • Byrht. Th. 138, 68
      • ;
    • By. 247.

  • On ánum fét

    on one foot,

    • Exon. 108 b
      • ;
    • Th. 415, 5
      • ;
    • Rä. 32, 17.

  • Mif fóte

    pĕde

    ,
    • Ex. 21, 41: Ps. Spl. 90, 12: Lk. Bos. 4, 11.

  • Standende wǽron fét úre on cáfertúnum ðínum

    stantes ĕrant pĕdes nostri in atriis tuis,

    • Ps. Spl. 121, 2
      • ;
    • Cd. 19
      • ;
    • Th. 24, 18
      • ;
    • Gen. 379.

  • Sindon fealwe fótas

    the feet are yellow

    ,
    • Exon. 60 a
      • ;
    • Th. 219, 22
      • ;
    • Ph. 311: Ps. Th. 121,2: 131,7.

  • Ge-eádmédaþ oððe gebiddaþ fótsceamol his fóta

    adōrāte scabellum pĕdum ejus,

    • Ps. Lamb. 98, 5
      • ;
    • Exon. 107 b
      • ;
    • Th. 410, 12
      • ;
    • Rä. 28,15.

  • Ðe-læs hig mid hyra fótum hig fortredon

    ne forte conculcent eas pĕdĭbus suis,

    • Mt. Bos. 7, 6.

  • Hæfde gefeormod fét and folma

    he had devoured feet and hands,

    • Beo. Th. 1494
      • ;
    • B. 745.
the foot; pēs, gen. pĕdis
The foot of a man, a measure of length, was divided into twelve equal parts or inches,
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v. ynce,
es; m. inch; and an inch is three barley-corns in length. In Anglo-Saxon times, the people and their rulers were satisfied with the simplest weights and measures, thus a yard was three feet, of twelve inches each foot, while an inch was in length three barley-corns. In our day, the legislature passed an act so late as July
    30, 1855.
It is styled An Act for legalising and preserving the restored standards and weights and measures. This Act inculed the weights of George the Fourth, 1824, in which the pounds avoirdupois is fixed by a standard weight, kept in the office of the Exchequer, and one equal seven-thousandth part of such pound avoirdupois shall be a grain. Thus our measures and weights are so recently fixed by standards.
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v. fót-gemet,
eln, ynce, met-geard, geard, gyrd.
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  • Nigon fóta, and ix scæfta munda, and ix bere-corna

    nine feet and nine half feet, and nine barley-corns or three inches,

    • L. Ath. iv. 5
      • ;
    • Th. i. 224, 9.
Etymology
[
Wyc. Piers. P. Chauc. foot
:
Laym. Orm. fot
:
Plat. voot, m
:
O.Sax. fót, fuot, m
:
Frs. foet
:
O.Frs. fot, m
:
Dut. voet, m
:
Ger. fusz, m
:
M.H.Ger. vuoz, m
:
O.H.Ger. fuoz, m
:
Goth. fotus, m
:
Dan. fod, m,f
:
Swed. fot, m
:
Icel. fótr, m
:
Lat pēs, gen. pĕd-is, m
:
Grk. πούς,gen. ποδός, m
:
Pers. pa; pl. payan
:
Lith. pá sole of the foot
:
Sansk. pad, pād, pāda, m. from pad to go.
]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “FÓT.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/12072.

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