fod

See also: FOD, fód, fòd, föd, főd, and fød

English

From a shortening of forehead, folk etymology an acronym for "forehead of doom".

fod (plural fods)

From Old Norse fótr, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, cognate with English foot, German Fuß, Dutch voet. The Germanic noun goes back to Proto-Indo-European *pṓds (“foot”), which is also the source of Latin pēs, Ancient Greek πούς (poús).

fod c (singular definite foden, plural indefinite fødder or (as a measure) fod)

(anatomy) foot
(figuratively) the base or lower part of something, e.g. a page or a mountain
(historical or referring to foreign cultures) foot, unit of measure, in Denmark 31.4 cm until 1907, equal to 12 tommer (inches)
(prosody or phonology, rare) foot, a rhythmical unit

Declension of *fod*
common gender	singular		plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	fod	foden	fødder (as a measure) fod	fødderne (as a measure) fodene
genitive	fods	fodens	fødders (as a measure) fods	føddernes (as a measure) fodenes

from fod

fod

fod (nominative plural fods)

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only

fod

Mutated forms of *bod*
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
bod	fod	mod	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.