Faut
Low German
Alternative forms
- Fot, Foot
Etymology
From Middle Low German vôt, from Old Saxon fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Cognate with German Fuß and English foot.
Noun
Faut m (dative Faute or Faut, pl Fäute or Fäut or Feute, dative plural Fäuten, diminutive Fäutken)
Usage notes
- The final -e becomes mute in Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch in the course of the 18th century except in deliberately clear speech or for poetic measure.
- Dialects in which this spelling is used:
- Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch
- Eastphalian
- Westphalian Märkisch
- Paderbornisch
- Sauerländisch
Derived terms
- Krigsfaut, Kriegsfaut
- Plattfäut
- Versfaut
Noun
Faut m (dative Faute, plural Faite, dimiutive Faitken)
Derived terms
- Fautbank
- Fautpâd
- Fautstappe
- Fautvolk
References
- Works by Richard Knoche ("Ein Sohn der rothen Erde") for Paderbornisch, and works by Friedrich Wilhelm Grimme for Sauerländisch
- Britzeln un Beschüte. Erzählungen und Gedichte nebst einer Sammlung der gebräulichsten Sprichwörter in sauerländischer (märkischer) Mundart von Th. Schröder [= Theodor Schröder]. Paderborn, 1898
- Friedrich Woeste, Wörterbuch der Westfälischen Mundart (1882, Norden/Leipzig: Diedr. Soltau's Verlag)
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