fo

Abbreviation of English Faroese or Faroese føroyskt.

fo

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Faroese.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Faroese terms

Clipping of folio.

fo (plural fos)

1. (paper, printing) Abbreviation of folio, page and book size (10"-12.5" x 15"-20").

• (page and book size): f
• (book size): F

fo

1. (informal) Alternative spelling of fo'.

• OF, OF., Of-, of

fo

1. (Molet Kasu, Molet Mur) water

• po (Asaro'o)

• John Carter, Katie Carter, John Grummitt, Bonnie MacKenzie, Janell Masters, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Mur Village Vernaculars, 2012, page 50

• IPA^(key): /ˈfo/ [ˈfo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: fo

fo

1. alternative form of foi

fo

1. water

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 107

fo

1. water

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 107

Bislama cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : fo

From English four.

fo

1. four

fo

1. alternative spelling of for

Borrowed from English follow.

fo

1. (Internet, Internet slang) to follow (subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform)

• 關注／关注 (guānzhù)

From clipping of English focus.

fo (Hong Kong Cantonese)

1. alternative form of foc

fo (Hong Kong Cantonese)

1. alternative form of foc

From clipping of English follow.

fo (Hong Kong Cantonese)

1. (Internet slang) alternative form of fol

fo

1. water

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 107

• IPA^(key): /fo/

• Audio 1:

  (file)

• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: fo

fo (accusative singular fo-on, plural fo-oj, accusative plural fo-ojn)

1. The name of the Latin script letter F/f.

• (Latin-script letter names) litero; a, bo, co, ĉo, do, e, fo, go, ĝo, ho, ĥo, i, jo, ĵo, ko, lo, mo, no, o, po, ro, so, ŝo, to, u, ŭo, vo, zo

• IPA^(key): /fò/, [f͈ò]

fò (plural fowo)

1. brother (older brother)
2. cousin (older male cousin)

fò

1. to peel (remove skin)

Borrowed from English four.

fo

1. four

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ‿|| ˈfɔ/

fo

1. (literary or regional) first-person singular present indicative of fare

   Synonym: faccio

fo is an alternative form (with respect to faccio) for the present indicative of the first person. Its usage is mainly literary and archaic^[1] but is still used in some regional forms of Italian.

• fo in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

fo

1. water

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 107

fo

1. The katakana syllable フォ (fo) in Hepburn romanization.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pusuq, cognate of Javanese pusuh and Tagalog puso.

fo

1. (anatomy) heart

• fo in Malagasy dictionaries at malagasyword.org

fo

1. water

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 107

fo

1. nonstandard spelling of fō
2. nonstandard spelling of fó

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

From Old Irish fo, from Proto-Celtic *uɸo, from Proto-Indo-European *upo (“under, up from under”).

• IPA^(key): /foː/^[1]

fo

1. under
2. below

fo (emphatic fosyn)

1. third-person singular masculine of fo (“under him”)

From the oblique stem of Old English ġefāh; equivalent to y- +‎ fo (adjective), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *faih.

• ffo, ffoo, foa, foe, foo, foe, ifoa, vo, yfoh, yvo, y-vo
• ifa, iva, ȝefo (Early Middle English)
• fa, faa (Northern)

• IPA^(key): /fɔː/, /iˈfɔː/
• Rhymes: -ɔː

fo (plural fon or fos)

1. A foe, enemy or opponent:
   1. An enemy of the true religion.
   2. An enemy combatant or armed force.
   3. (Christianity) Satan; the enemy of mankind.
2. A harmful or ruinous force; that which causes terror.

• English: foe
• Scots: fae

• “fō, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 May 2018.
• “ifō, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 May 2018.

From Old English fā, a form of fāh, from Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz.

• foo
• fa (Early Middle English)

• IPA^(key): /fɔː/
• Rhymes: -ɔː

fo

1. (rare) combative, opposed, inimical
2. (rare) dangerous, foreboding

• foman

• English: foe (obsolete as an adjective)

• “fō, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 May 2018.

fo

1. (rare) In a way showing unfriendliness or opposition.

• English: foe (obsolete as an adverb)

• “fō, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 May 2018.

fo

1. alternative spelling of foo

• Shirley Burtch (1983), Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[2] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 91

From Old French fol, from Latin follis.

• Audio (Jersey):

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fo m (plural fos)

1. (Jersey) madman

• fu (Föhr-Amrum)
• füünj (Mooring)

From Old Frisian fā, from Proto-Germanic *fanhaną. See fu for more.

• (Sylt) IPA^(key): [fɔ]

fo

1. (Sylt) to get, receive, obtain

• IPA^(key): /fō/

fo

1. (transitive) to wash

   Synonym: ná

   Ǹdá á èwò fo. ― Father washed the garment.

• IPA^(key): /foː/

fō

1. inflection of fōn:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

• fu, fú

From Proto-Celtic *uɸo, from Proto-Indo-European *upo (“under, up from under”).

• IPA^(key): /ɸo/

fo (with accusative or dative)

1. under, beneath
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 109^d5

     Ní taít Día fo tairṅgere conid·chumscaiged.

     God does not come under a promise that he should alter it.

2. to, towards
   • c. 850–875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 110c

     Ba bés leusom do·bertis dá boc leu dochum tempuil, ⁊ no·léicthe indala n‑aí fon díthrub co pecad in popuil, ⁊ do·bertis maldachta foir, ⁊ n⟨o⟩·oircthe didiu and ó popul tar cenn a pecthae ind aile.

     It was a custom with them that two he-goats were brought by them to the temple, and one of the two of them was let go to the wilderness with the sin of the people, and curses were put upon him, and thereupon the other was slain there by the people for their sins.

3. through, throughout
4. in the capacity of
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 20^b13

     Ní fú indidit a·tá irascemini sunt .i. irascemini fercaigthe-si, acht is fo imchomarc a·tá.

     It is not in affirmation that irascemini is here, i.e. irascemini you pl are angry, but it is in interrogation. [In other words, irascemini is here a question, not a statement. The Latin verb is actually in the future tense, but the Old Irish gloss of it is in the present tense.]

5. according to
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 38^c3

     Ní hé apstal cita·rogab in testimin so. Aliter: Ní fóu da·uc int apstal fon chéill fuand·rogab in fáith.

     It is not (the) apostle who first uttered this text. Otherwise: The apostle did not apply it in the sense in which the prophet uttered it.

*Late forms

Combinations with a definite article:

• fon, fun (“under the (accusative m/f sg)”)
• fua (“under the (accusative n sg)”)
• fon(d), fun(d) (“under the (dative sg)”)
• fonna (“under the (accusative pl)”)

Combinations with a possessive determiner:

• fom (“under my”)
• fot (“under your sg”)
• foa, fua, fó (“under his/her/its/their”)
• fóar (“under our”)

Combinations with a relative pronoun:

• foa·, fua· fo· (“under which/whom”)

• fu acis

• fo-

• Irish: faoi
• Manx: fo
• Scottish Gaelic: fo

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fo, fa, fá”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909], D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, pages 276, 511–13; reprinted 2017

From Old Irish fo. Cognates include Irish faoi and Manx fo.

• IPA^(key): /fɔ/, /fo/
• Hyphenation: fo

fo (+ dative, triggers lenition, combined with the singular definite article fon)

1. under, below, beneath
2. at the bottom of
3. (idiomatic) under the influence of, affected by, overwhelmed with, full of

• (antonym(s) of “below”): os cionn

• Mark, Colin (2003), “fo”, in The Gaelic–English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 307

fo

1. inflection of far:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person singular preterite indicative

From English four.

• IPA^(key): /fo/

fo

1. four

fo

1. first-person singular present indicative of far

fo

1. in front of; before (place)

• po

• IPA^(key): /voː/
• Rhymes: -oː

Reduction of efô, emphatic form of ef (“he (literary)”).

fo

1. he, him.

Fo is used in north Wales and a variant of o. The choice between o and fo is dependent on grammatical and euphonic considerations. The forms e and fe are used in the south.

fo

1. soft mutation of bo

fo

1. alternative form of fho
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 12-14^[1]:

     az avare ye trad dicke londe yer name waz ee-kent var ee vriene o' livertie, an He fo brake ye neckarès o' zlaves.

     for before your foot pressed the soil, your name was known to us as the friend of liberty, and he who broke the fetters of the slave.

   • 1927, “LAMENT OF A WIDOW”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 130, lines 1^[2]:

     Ochone! to fo shul Ich maak mee moan,

     Ochone, to whom shall I make my moan,

   • 1927, “ZONG O DHREE YOLA MYTHENS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 131, lines 2^[2]:

     Fo naar had looke var to be brides,

     Who never had luck to be brides,

   • 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 133, lines 2^[2]:

     Fo laately got tackled to Kakeen Lurkaan,

     Who lately got tackled to Catherine Larkin,

• IPA^(key): /fò/

fò

1. (intransitive) to jump, or leap in an upwards direction
2. (intransitive) to fly
3. (idiomatic) to miss, to escape one's attention, to forget

   ọkàn mí fò ó ― My mind missed it

• ìfò (“the act of flying”)
• àfòpiná (“moth”)

• bẹ́ (“to leap”)
• tọ (“to hop”)
• gbàgbé (“to forget”)

• IPA^(key): /fò/

fò

1. (transitive) to decapitate

   Synonyms: bẹ́, bẹ́rí, bẹ́lórí

   wọ́n fi idà fo orí olè ― They used a sword to decapitate the head of the thief

• ìfò (“decapitation”)
• afò (“executioner”)

• IPA^(key): /fò/

fò

1. (transitive) to omit

   Synonym: yọ

2. (intransitive) to become omitted

• ìfò (“omission”)

• IPA^(key): /fò/

fò

1. (transitive) to shrink (as of clothes)
2. (intransitive) to become shortened in dimension; to contract; to no longer be able to fit

   aṣọ yìí fò mí ― The clothes no longer fits me

• ìfò (“the act of shrinking; contraction”)