Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/fōt

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.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fōts.

Noun

*fōt m

foot
a unit of length

Inflection

Consonant stem
	Singular
Nominative	*fōt
Genitive	*fōti
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*fōt	*fōti
Accusative	*fōtu	*fōti
Genitive	*fōti	*fōtō
Dative	*fōti	*fōtum
Instrumental	*fōti	*fōtum

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)
  - Scots: fit, fuit, fut, fute
  - Yola: voote
Old Frisian: fōt
- North Frisian: fötj, fut, Fut
- Saterland Frisian: Fout
- West Frisian: foet
Old Saxon: fōt
- Middle Low German: vôt
  - Low German:
    - German Low German: Voot
      Hamburgisch: Foot
      Westphalian:
      Lippisch: Féut m
      Ravensbergisch: Feot
      Westmünsterländisch: Foot
      Märkisch: Faut
  - Plautdietsch: Foot
Old Dutch: fuot
- Middle Dutch: voet
  - Dutch: voet
  - Limburgish: voot
Old High German: fuoz
- Middle High German: fuoz, vuoz
  - Alemannic German: Fuas
  - Bavarian: Fuaß
    Cimbrian: vuus, buus, vuaz
    Gottscheerish: vúəs
    Mòcheno: vuas
  - Central Franconian: Foß, Fuß
    Hunsrik: Fus
    Kölsch: Fooß
    Luxembourgish: Fouss
  - German: Fuß
  - Rhine Franconian: Fuss, Fuß
    Frankfurterisch: Fuß – , (older)
    Pennsylvania German: Fuuss
  - Swabian: Fuaß
  - Vilamovian: füs
  - Yiddish: פֿוס (fus)

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”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 117: “*fōt”

Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/fōt

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