Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg. · Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking. · Travel by walking. · The base or bottom of anything.
From Middle English fot, fote, foot, from Old English fōt, from Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. The plural feet is the result of i-umlaut in Proto-West Germanic *fōti, see more at Old English fōt. Doublet of pes, pie (“Spanish unit of length”), and pous. Cognates *Scots fit (“foot”) *Yola voote (“foot”) *North Frisian fut, fötj (“foot”) *Saterland Frisian Fout (“foot”) *West Frisian foet (“foot”) *Cimbrian buus, vuaz, vuus (“foot”) *Dutch voet (“foot”) *Dutch Low Saxon voot (“foot”) *German Fuß, Fuss (“foot”) *German Low German Faut, Foot (“foot”) *Gottscheerish vúəs (“foot”) *Luxembourgish Fouss (“foot”) *Mòcheno vuas (“foot”) *Vilamovian füs (“foot”) *Yiddish פֿוס (fus, “foot”) *Danish fod (“foot”) *Faroese and Icelandic fótur (“foot”) *Jamtish fót (“foot”) *Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish fot (“foot”) *Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐍄𐌿𐍃 (fōtus, “foot”) *Persian پا (pā, “foot”)
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- Inherited-form mentionfotenm
- Inherited-form mentionfōtang
- Inherited-form mention*fōtgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*fōtsgem-pro
- Inherited-form mention*pṓdsine-pro
- Cognate mention*fōtgmw-pro
- Cognate mentionfōtang
- Doublet mentionpesen
- Doublet mentionpieen · Spanish unit of length
- Doublet mentionpousen
- Cognate mentionfitsco
- Cognate mentionvooteyol
- Cognate mentionfutfrr
- Cognate mentionFoutstq
- Cognate mentionfoetfy
- Cognate mentionbuuscim
- Cognate mentionvoetnl
- Cognate mentionFußde
- Cognate mentionvúəsgmw-gts
- Cognate mentionFousslb
- Cognate mentionvuasmhn
- Cognate mentionfüswym
- Cognate mentionפֿוסyi
- Cognate mentionfodda
- Cognate mentionfótgmq-jmk
- Cognate mention𐍆𐍉𐍄𐌿𐍃got
- Cognate mentionپاfa
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"A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.",
"Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.",
"Travel by walking.",
"The base or bottom of anything."
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