Fotとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /foːt/
• 韻: -oːt

名詞

fōt m (nominative plural fēt)

1. a foot, in the following senses:
   1. (anatomy) an organ in humans and animals used for locomotion
      • Exeter Book, riddle 40

        Hefiġere iċ eom miċle þonne sē hāra stān
        oþþe unlȳtel lēades clympre,
        lēohtre iċ eom miċle þonne þēs lȳtla wyrm
        þe hēr on flōde gǣð fōtum dryġe.

        I am much heavier than the gray stone
        or an un-little clump of lead,
        I am much lighter than this little bug
        that walks here on the water with dry feet

        • 10th century, The Seafarer:

          þonne hē be clifum cnossað. · Calde ġeþrungen
          wǣron mīne fēt, · forste ġebunden,
          caldum clommum, · þǣr þā ċeare sēofedun.
          Hāt ymb heortan · hungor innan slāt
          merewērġes mōd. · Þæt sē mon ne wāt

          then it beats near cliffs. My feet were
          squeezed by cold, bound by frost,
          with cold fetters, when there we bemoaned
          sorrows. Hot about heart, hunger within tore
          a sea-weary mind. The man didn't know that,

        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
      • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

        ...⁊ sē weall wæs XX fōta þicce, ⁊ XL elna hēah...

        ...and the wall was twenty feet thick, and forty ells tall...

        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

語形変化

Strong consonant stem:

A rare nominative/accusative plural fōtas is also attested.

派生語

• -fēte
• fōtlīċ
• fōtmǣlum
• hwītfōt

派生した語

• 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

参照

語源

Inherited from 古期英語 fōt, from Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds.

発音

• IPA: /foːt/

名詞

fot (plural feet or (measure) 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, folio 117, verso, 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.

派生語

派生した語

• English: foot (see there for further descendants)
• English: (West Yorkshire) fooit
• Scots: fit, fuit, fut, fute
• Yola: voote

参照

• “fọ̄t, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 17 May 2018.