英単語

fylfotの意味・使い方・発音

fylfot

英 ['fɪlfɒt] 美
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英語の語源


fylfot (n.)
supposedly a native name for the swastika (used as a decorative device), but only attested in a single, damaged c. 1500 manuscript, and in that it might rather refer to any sort of device used to fill the bottom (foot) of a design. "[I]t is even possible that it may have been a mere nonce-word" [OED].

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