fo

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Translingual

Symbol

fo

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

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of folio

Noun

fo (plural fos)

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

Synonyms

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

Etymology 2

Preposition

fo

1. (informal) Alternative spelling of fo'

Anagrams

• OF, OF., Of-, of

Asaro'o

Noun

fo

1. (Molet Kasu, Molet Mur) water

Alternative forms

• po (Asaro'o)

References

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

Beneraf

Noun

fo

1. water

Further reading

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

Berik

Noun

fo

1. water

Further reading

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

Bislama

Etymology

From English four.

Numeral

fo

1. four

Cameroon Pidgin

Preposition

fo

1. Alternative spelling of for

Chinese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English follow.

Pronunciation

Verb

fo

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

Synonyms

• 關注 (guānzhù)

Etymology 2

From clipping of English focus.

Pronunciation

Noun

fo (Hong Kong Cantonese)

1. Alternative form of foc.

Verb

fo (Hong Kong Cantonese)

1. Alternative form of foc.

Etymology 3

From clipping of English follow.

Pronunciation

Verb

fo (Hong Kong Cantonese)

1. (Internet slang) Alternative form of fol.

Dineor

Noun

fo

1. water

Further reading

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

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fo]
• Hyphenation: fo

Noun

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

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

See also

• (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

Ewe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fəʊ]

Noun

fo

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

Verb

fo

1. to peel (remove skin)

Fanagalo

Etymology

Borrowed from English four.

Numeral

fo

1. four

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ‿|| ˈfɔ/

Verb

fo

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

   Synonym: faccio

Usage notes

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

References

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

Itik

Noun

fo

1. water

Further reading

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

Japanese

Romanization

fo

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

Malagasy

Etymology

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

Noun

fo

1. (anatomy) heart

Further reading

• fo in Malagasy dictionaries at malagasyword.org

Mambwe-Lungu

Noun

fo

1. water

Further reading

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

Mandarin

Romanization

fo

1. Nonstandard spelling of fō.
2. Nonstandard spelling of fó.

Usage notes

• 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.

Manx

Etymology

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

Preposition

fo

1. under
2. below

Inflection

Pronoun

fo

1. third-person singular masculine of fo

   under him/it

Derived terms

• fosyn (emphatic)

Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

Descendants

• English: foe
• Scots: fae

References

• “fō, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-27.
• “ifō, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-27.

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• foo
• fa (Early Middle English)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔː/
• Rhymes: -ɔː

Adjective

fo

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

Derived terms

• foman

Descendants

• English: foe (obsolete as an adjective)

References

• “fō, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-27.

Adverb

fo

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

Descendants

• English: foe (obsolete as an adverb)

References

• “fō, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-27.

Murui Huitoto

Adverb

fo

1. Alternative spelling of foo

References

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[1] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 91

Norman

Etymology

From Old French fol, from Latin follis.

Pronunciation

Noun

fo m (plural fos)

1. (Jersey) madman

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• fu (Föhr-Amrum)
• füünj (Mooring)

Etymology

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

Verb

fo

1. (Sylt) to get, receive, obtain

Conjugation

Nupe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fō/

Verb

fo

1. (transitive) to wash

   Synonym: ná

   Ǹdá á èwò fo. ― Father washed the garment.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /foː/

Verb

fō

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

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• fu, fú

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɸo]

Preposition

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

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

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

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

Inflection

*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”)

Derived terms

• fu acis

Related terms

• fo-

Descendants

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

Further reading

• 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) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, pages 276, 511–13; reprinted 2017

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Preposition

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

1. under, below, beneath
2. under the influence of

Inflection

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “below”): os cionn

Derived terms

References

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

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English four.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fo/

Numeral

fo

1. four

Venetan

Verb

fo

1. first-person singular present indicative of far

Volapük

Preposition

fo

1. in front of; before (place)

Antonyms

• po

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /voː/
• Rhymes: -oː

Etymology 1

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

Pronoun

fo

1. he, him.

Usage notes

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.

Etymology 2

Verb

fo

1. Soft mutation of bo.

Mutation

Yola

Pronoun

fo

1. Alternative form of fho

References

Yoruba

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fò/

Verb

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

Derived terms

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

Related terms

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

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fò/

Verb

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

Derived terms

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

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fò/

Verb

fò

1. (transitive) to omit

   Synonym: yọ

2. (intransitive) to become omitted

Derived terms

• ìfò (“omission”)

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fò/

Verb

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

Derived terms

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