fotnot

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Etymology

fot +‎ not, calque of German Fußnote, attested since 1902.

Pronunciation

Noun

fotnot c

  1. a footnote
    Boken gav ett akademiskt intryck eftersom den hade många fotnoter
    The book gave an academic impression as it had a lot of footnotes

Usage notes

A jocular plural is fotnötter, superficially fot (“foot”) + nötter (“nuts”), imitating the umlaut plural of words like fot (“foot”), rot (“root”), mus (“mouse”), gås (“goose”), and tand (“tooth”). Fotnötter is sometimes mistakenly assumed to be the standard form due to frequent use.

Declension

Declension of fotnot
nominative genitive
singular indefinite fotnot fotnots
definite fotnoten fotnotens
plural indefinite fotnoter fotnoters
definite fotnoterna fotnoternas

Jocular:

Declension of fotnot
nominative genitive
singular indefinite fotnot fotnots
definite fotnoten fotnotens
plural indefinite fotnötter fotnötters
definite fotnötterna fotnötternas

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