feet

English

Etymology 1

(deprecated template usage)

From Middle English feet, fet, from Old English fēt, from Proto-Germanic *fōtiz, from Proto-Indo-European *pódes, nominative plural of *pṓds (“foot”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Fäite (“feet”), West Frisian fiet (“feet”), German Füße (“feet”), Danish fødder (“feet”), Swedish fötter (“feet”), Faroese føtur (“feet”), Icelandic fætur (“feet”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: fēt, IPA^(key): /fiːt/

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• Rhymes: -iːt
• Homophone: feat

Noun

feet

1. (deprecated template usage) plural of foot.
   • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC:

     There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.

Derived terms

• get cold feet

Etymology 2

Noun

feet

1. (obsolete) Fact; performance; feat.

Anagrams

• ETFE, fete, fête, teef

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Luxembourgish

Verb

feet

1. inflection of feeën:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person plural imperative

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Middle English

Noun

feet

1. plural of fot

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

feet n

1. definite singular of fe (Etymology 2)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

feet n

1. definite singular of fe (Etymology 2)