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

Noun

feet

  1. plural form of foot.
    • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, OCLC 7780546; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., 55 Fifth Avenue, [1933], OCLC 2666860, page 0091:
      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:
      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.

Etymology 2

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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