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196 foti,, see ,

fotlin [fȯƫlin] and fotlek [fȯƫlək], , a mouse, tabu-name, used by fishermen at sea. Also [fȯitlɩn], [fȯitlək, [fꜵ̈i‘tlək], [fei‘tlək, fəi‘tlək], [f$ə$itᶅək] and [futli]. The forms “fȯƫlin, fȯitlɩn, fei‘tlək, f$ə$itᶅək and futli” are noted down in Unst (futli: ), “fꜵ̈i‘tlək and fəi‘tlək” in North-Yell. All the forms given, spring from a “*fœtlingr” in sense of a small foot, light foot, a of fótr,, a foot.  “fotel” in , applied to the squirrel (in a rigmarole; in R. under “fotella”). For the derivative l  ferfætlingur, , a quadruped (J.Th.), and fjorføtla,, a lizard. From the also a in s:  [fȯƫsək], [fȯitsək] and [fətsɩk, fɩtsək] ( and ); besides the forms, , , is also found [fäi‘tsək]. Other forms, characteristic of the ( of  and ), are:  [fətək], [fətər, fetər], [fət$n$rɩk]. The forms prefixed by - [fət (fet)-] are, with reference to the , influenced by (and ) “fit”, , foot. the tabu-names for cat, under ,

fotsek,, see ,

fotsporr, fit-sporr [fət·spȯrr··], , cross-bar,, , stretcher of a boat, for supporting the feet in rowing =. *fót-sparri or -sperra. See ,

, bailiff. Balfour gives “foud” with the explanation “collector of the king’s skatts, skyllds, mulcts,, afterwards chief judge, and ultimately sheriff of the Foudrie of Zetland”. In the Shetland Isles in the 16th century the designation “great f. (grand f., head f.)” was used of the bailiff, the chief official in the Isles beside the lawman, the judge, while the under- bailiffs (district judges, parish bailiffs) in the various subordinate bailiwicks were called “underfouds, underfowdes”, later, “parish fouds”. “The great foud” was replaced in the 17th century by a “steward-depute” or (later) “sheriff”, the under-bailiffs by “bailies, bailiffs”. The lawman’s office was dissolved about or before the middle of the 16th century, shortly before the bailiff’s office, which it has been merged. Hence the intermingling of the designations “great f.” and “lagman, lawman”. Hibbert applies “the great foude or lagman” to one and the same functionary, also called “prefect”. Barry designates the bailiff (the foud) as “the president of the supreme court formerly held in the Orkney and Shetland islands”, and, like Balfour, makes him a specifically functionary — in disagreement with deeds from the 16th century; see further under *, — A form, with preserved original g, was still used in the latter half of the 16th century. In a letter of 1567 from the English Ambassador at the Scottish Court in Edinburgh, Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, to Queen Elizabeth, with to Bothwell (who in his flight to Denmark made a short stay in Shetland at the bailiff Olaw Sinclair’s), the  bailiff, “the principal man of the isle”, is mentioned as “fogge” (misunderstood by the letter-writer as the bailiff’s name: “The principal man of the isle, named, doth favoure Bodwell”). G. Goudie, Ant. of Shetland, pp. 93 (and 230). — Other modes of spelling the word in old Scottish-Shetlandic deeds are:, , and , in which the l was mute. — foguti (fogutr, fugutr, folguti, fouti),   fut and faut, faut, fúti (fúdi), , a bailiff (borrowed from ).
 * foud, *foude, *fowde [fɔud, fåud],