foot
/fʊt/ · noun
Meaning
- 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.
- The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
- The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
- A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
- A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
- Ellipsis of square foot, a unit of area.
- Ellipsis of cubic foot, a unit of volume.
- A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
- Foot soldiers; infantry.
- To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
- To pay (a bill).
- To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
- To walk.
- To set foot on; to walk on.
- To set on foot; to establish; to land.
- To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
- To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.
- To spread out and stack up (turf sods) to allow them to dry.
- A surname.
Etymology / origin
From Middle English fot, fote, foot, from Old English fōt, from Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. 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”).
- fót(gmq-jmk)→
- fótur(fo,is)→
- fod(Danish)→
- פֿוס(Yiddish)→
- füs(Vilamovian)→
- vuas(mhn)→
- Fouss(Luxembourgish)→
- vúəs(gmw-gts)→
- Faut(nds-de)→
- Fuß(German)→
- voot(nds-nl)→
- voet(Dutch)→
- buus(Cimbrian)→
- foet(West Frisian)→
- Fout(Saterland Frisian)→
- fut(North Frisian)→
- voote(Yola)→
- fit(Scots)→
- *pṓds(ine-pro)→
- *fōts(gem-pro)→
- *fōt(gmw-pro)→
- fōt(ang)→
- fot(Middle English)→
- *ped-(ine-pro)→
- foot (English)
- Relations: root, inh, inh, inh, inh, inh, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog, cog
Related words
Descendant words
- δάπεδον(Ancient Greek) (cog)
- ποδήρης(Ancient Greek) (cog)
- πούς(Ancient Greek) (cog)
- ফুট(Assamese) (bor)
- পদ(Bengali) (cog)
- পা(Bengali) (cog)
- vuaz(Cimbrian) (cog)
- vuus(Cimbrian) (cog)
- eskis(Cornish) (cog)
- fjed(Danish) (cog)
- fod(Danish) (cog)
- futo(Esperanto) (der)
- footing(Galician) (der)
- Fuß(German) (cog)
- पाँव(Hindi) (cog)
- पाबंद(Hindi) (cog)
- फ़ुट(Hindi) (bor)
- フット(Japanese) (bor)
- фут(Kazakh) (der)
- pes(Latin) (cog)
- Foot(Low German) (cog)
- Fouss(Luxembourgish) (cog)
- fot(Norwegian Nynorsk) (cog)
- pāda(Pali) (cog)
- Fuuss(Pennsylvania German) (cog)
- فوت(Persian) (bor)
- фут(Russian) (bor)
- पद्(Sanskrit) (cog)
- uidh(Scottish Gaelic) (cog)
- footing(Spanish) (der)
- pie(Spanish) (cog)
- pie(Spanish) (sl)
- futu(Sranan Tongo) (der)
- futi(Swahili) (bor)
- fjät(Swedish) (cog)
- ฟุต(Thai) (bor)
- fut(Tok Pisin) (inh)
- put(Tok Pisin) (der)
- фут(Ukrainian) (bor)
- esgid(Welsh) (cog)
- pa(Zazaki) (cog)
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