feet

English

Etymology 1

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/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -iːt
  • Homophone: feat

Noun

feet

  1. plural of foot.

Derived terms

Noun

feet

  1. (obsolete) Fact; performance; feat.

Anagrams


Luxembourgish

Verb

feet

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

Middle English

Noun

feet

  1. plural of fot

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

feet n

  1. definite singular of fe (Etymology 2)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

feet n

  1. definite singular of fe (Etymology 2)
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