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Fylfot or fylfot cross (FILL-fot), is a synonym for ''swastika'' or "tetraskelion." It is a cross with perpendicular extensions, usually at 90° or close angles, radiating in the same direction. According to some modern texts on heraldry, such as Friar and Woodcock and Robinson (see below), the fylfot is upright and typically with truncated limbs, as shown in the figure at right. ==Etymology== The most commonly cited etymology for this is that it comes from the notion common among nineteenth-century antiquarians, but based on only a single 1500 manuscript, that it was used to ''fill'' empty space at the ''foot'' of stained-glass windows in medieval churches. This etymology is often cited in modern dictionaries (such as the ''Collins English Dictionary'' and Merriam-Webster OnLine). Thomas Wilson (1896), suggested other etymologies, now considered untenable: # "In Great Britain the common name given to the Swastika from Anglo-Saxon times ... was Fylfot, said to have been derived from the Anglo-Saxon ''fower fot'', meaning four-footed, or many-footed."〔quoting from and 〕 # "The word () is Scandinavian and is compounded of Old Norse ''fiǫl-'', equivalent to the Anglo-Saxon ''fela'', German ''viel'', "many", and ''fótr'', "foot", the many-footed figure."〔quoting from 〕 The Germanic root ''fele'' is cognate with English ''full'', which has the sense of "many". Both ''fele'' and ''full'' are in turn related to the Greek ''poly-'', all of which stem from the proto-Indo-European root '' *ple-''. A ''fylfot'' is thus a "poly-foot", to wit, a "many-footed" sigil. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「fylfot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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