Faut
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See also: faut
Low German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Faut m (dative Faute or Faut, plural Fäute or Fäut or Feute, dative plural Fäuten, diminutive Fäutken, plural Fäutkens)
Usage notes
[edit]- 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 dialects:
- Paderbornisch
- Westphalian Märkisch
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]Faut m (dative Faute, plural Faite or Fait', dative plural Faiten, diminutive Faitken)
Noun
[edit]Faut m (dative Faute, plural Faite, dimiutive Fäutken)
- (Sauerländisch, Westphalian Märkisch) foot (anatomy)
- de faite in de hänne nȩmen ― to run
- ö¸ver faut kuəmen ― to come to be at strife
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- 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)
Plautdietsch
[edit]Noun
[edit]Faut n (plural Fauten)
- firkin, a unit of volume equal to 45/5 liters
Categories:
- Low German terms inherited from Middle Low German
- Low German terms derived from Middle Low German
- Low German terms inherited from Old Saxon
- Low German terms derived from Old Saxon
- Low German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Low German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Low German terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Low German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Low German lemmas
- Low German nouns
- Low German masculine nouns
- Low German terms with usage examples
- Plautdietsch lemmas
- Plautdietsch nouns
- Plautdietsch neuter nouns
- Plautdietsch 1-syllable words