different between goy vs foy

English

Alternative forms

• Goy
• goi, Goi

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish ???? (goy, “gentile”), from Hebrew ?????? (goi, “nation”).

Compare Exodus 19:6: ????? ????? ???? ???? (mamlekhet kohanim wegoy qadosh, “ […] a kingdom of priests and a holy nation”) (referring to the Jewish people). The word goy technically refers not to non-Jews, but rather to a nation per se; the Jews are said to constitute a “goy”. But through common usage – namely referring to "the [other non-Jewish] nations" – the word came to colloquially refer to non-Jews.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

goy (plural goyim or goys or goyem)

1. A non-Jew, a gentile. (See usage notes)

   Synonyms: akum, gentile, shegetz, shkotz

   Hyponym: (female) shiksa

Usage notes

This noun is sometimes taken to be offensive; speakers wishing to avoid offense may prefer the term gentile (sometimes capitalized as Gentile) or simply non-Jew.

Derived terms

• anti-goy
• antigoyism
• anti-goyish
• goyish
• shabbos goy

Translations

Anagrams

• ygo

Anguthimri

Noun

goy

1. (Mpakwithi) buck wallaby

References

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 186

Ladino

Etymology

From Hebrew ????.

Noun

goy m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ????, plural goyim, feminine goya)

1. goy, gentile, non-Jew

Portuguese

Noun

goy m, f (plural goys)

1. Alternative spelling of gói

English

Etymology

From Middle French foy.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??

Noun

foy (countable and uncountable, plural foys)

1. (obsolete, rare) Faith, allegiance.
2. (obsolete) A feast given by one about to leave a place.
   • 1661 November 25, Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1661, 2006, Echo Library, page 124,

     To Westminster Hall in the morning with Captain Lambert, and there he did at the Dog give me and some other friends of his, his foy, he being to set sail to-day towards the Streights.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French foi.

Noun

foy f (plural foys)

1. faith
   • 1532, François Rabelais, Pantagruel:

     Saigneur Dieu oste moy de ce torment, auquel ces traitres chiens me detiennent, pour la maintenance de ta foy.

     Lord God remove me from this torment in which these traiterous dogs are holding, to help me keep your faith.

Descendants

• French: foi

Portuguese

Verb

foy

1. Obsolete spelling of foi