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 (Hebrew spelling פ׳וייו)

1. hole (opening)
   • 1995, Matilda Koén-Sarano, De Saragosa a Yerushaláyim: kuentos sefaradís‎^[1], Ibercaja, →ISBN, page 177:

     El ke aze foyo para el d’enfrente, se kaye él arientro.

     He who makes [a] hole for other people falls inside [of it].

2. pit (depression in the ground)
   • 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar‎^[2], page 78:

     Un día yo fui al kabiné (ke era un foyo en al tierra, un poko leshos de muestra kaza), i kual no fue mi orror, kuando lo vidi yeno de unos guzanos blankos enormes.

     One day I was at the workroom (which was a pit in the earth a little ways from our house), and wasn't I scared when I saw it full of huge white worms.

3. grave (for a body)
4. puncture (bore)
5. blower (bellows)
   • 1888, “La eskalera”, in Folkmasa‎^[3]:

     los pulmones se pueden yamar el foyo; la garganta i las narizes, los tubos; la kavidad de la boka, el arko del aire; i las interiores diviziones de la boka, las teklas

     The lungs can be called the bellows; the throat and the noses, tubes; the oral cavity the air arch; and the mouth's interior divisions, keys.

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