foyo

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto fojo, from French fois.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfojo/

Noun

foyo (plural foyi)

1. time (in counting)
2. occasion (in repetition)
3. turn (in series)

Derived terms

• unfoye (“once, one time”)

 

Ladino

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish foyo (“hole”). Cognate with Asturian fueyu, Galician foxo, Portuguese fojo.

Noun

foyo m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling פ׳וייו)

1. hole (opening)
2. pit (depression in the ground)
3. grave (for a body)
4. puncture (bore)
5. blower (bellows)

Old Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin fovea, with a change in gender or possibly through a Vulgar Latin form *foveum.

Noun

foyo m (plural foyos)

1. hole (pit)

Descendants

• Ladino: foyo
• Spanish: hoyo

References

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “foyo”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 266