# foin
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɔɪn/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔɪn

### Etymology 1

From Old French foene (“harpoon, fizgig”), from Latin fuscina (“trident”).

#### Noun

foin (plural foins)
* (archaic) A thrust.
** 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XXI, Chapter iiij, leaf 424r:And there kyng Arthur smote syr mordred vnder the shelde wyth a foyne of his spere throughoute the body more than a fadom. "And there King Arthur smote Sir Mordred under the shield, with a foin of his spear, throughout the body, more than a fathom."
** 1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Jerusalem Delivered, Tasso, XII, lv:
    They move their hands, steadfast their feet remain, / Nor blow nor foin they struck or thrust in vain.

##### Derived terms

* foinery

#### Verb

foin (third-person singular simple present foins, present participle foining, simple past and past participle foined)
* (archaic) To thrust with a sword; to stab at.
    Synonyms: jab, run through; see also Thesaurus:stab
** 1976, Robert Nye, Falstaff:These Fastulfrs and Falsts could drink as well as they could foin or fight, and this has also been the case with me.
** 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 25:He stroke, he soust, he foynd, he hewd, he lasht,
** 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:They lash, they foin, they pass, they strive to bore / Their corselets, and the thinnest parts explore.
* (archaic) To prick; to sting.

### Etymology 2

From French fouine (“a marten”).

#### Noun

foin (plural foins)
* The beech marten (Martes foina, syn. Mustela foina).
* A kind of fur, black at the top on a whitish ground, taken from the ferret or weasel of the same name.
** 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:He came to the stake in a fair black gown furred and faced with foins.

### Anagrams

* Fino, Info., ONFI, fino, info, info-

## Bavarian
### Alternative forms

* fålln (Southern Bavarian)

### Etymology

From Middle High German vallen, from Old High German fallan, from Proto-West Germanic *fallan, from Proto-Germanic *fallaną, from Proto-Indo-European *pōl-. Akin to German fallen, Low German fallen, Dutch vallen, English fall, Danish falde, Dutch falla.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɔen/
* Hyphenation: foin

### Verb

foin (past participle gfoin) (Central Bavarian)
* (intransitive) to fall; to drop
* (intransitive, military) to die; to fall in battle; to die in battle; to be killed in action
* (intransitive) to become lower, to decrease, to decline

#### Derived terms

* auffafoin
* auffoin
* ausfoin
* außafoin
* außefoin
* außifoin
* danebnfoin
* eifoin
* einafoin
* einefoin
* einifoin
* gfoin
* herfoin
* hifoin
* iwafoin
* niederfoin
* nunterfoin
* owafoin
* owefoin
* owifoin
* schwafoin
* umfoin
* ummafoin
* ummefoin
* ummifoin
* verfoin
* vuafoin
* wegafoin
* zerfoin
* zruckfoin
* zuafoin
* zåmmfoin
* åfoin

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French foin, from Old French fein, from Latin fēnum, monophthongized variant of Latin faenum (“hay”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-no-, from *dʰeh₁(y)-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fwɛ̃/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -wɛ̃

### Noun

foin m (plural foins)
* hay

#### Derived terms

* bête à manger du foin
* chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin
* faire tout un foin de
* meule de foin
* rhume des foins

#### Related terms

* faner
* fenaison
* fenasse
* fenil

### Further reading

* “foin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* fion, info

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* fain
* fein

### Etymology

From earlier fein, from Latin faenum.

### Noun

foin oblique singular, m (oblique plural foinz, nominative singular foinz, nominative plural foin)
* hay

#### Related terms

* fener

#### Descendants

* French: foin
* Norman: fain