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 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

• a closed mouth gathers no feet
• at one's feet
• at the feet of
• beat feet
• burning feet syndrome
• chicken feet
• cold feet
• cover one's feet
• crow's feet
• crow's-feet
• cut the ground from under someone's feet
• dead on one's feet
• drag one's feet
• end-feet
• fall on one's feet
• fall over one's feet
• feel eight feet tall
• feel nine feet tall
• feel ten feet tall
• feel twelve feet tall
• feetage
• feet dry
• feeted
• feet-first
• feet first
• feetfirst
• feeties
• feetless
• feetlong
• feet of clay
• feet on the ground
• feetsies
• feetsy
• feetwear
• feet wet
• find one's feet
• flat feet
• get cold feet
• get one's feet wet
• get to one's feet
• hold someone's feet to the fire
• itchy feet
• jump in with both feet
• kick one's feet up
• land on one's feet
• lay something at the feet of
• let the grass grow round one's feet
• let the grass grow under one's feet
• light on one's feet
• on one's feet
• out on one's feet
• peet
• plant one's feet
• put one's feet up
• quick on one's feet
• rushed off one's feet
• shake off the dust from one's feet
• shake the dust from one's feet
• six feet under
• stand on one's own two feet
• stepping feet illusion
• sweep someone off their feet
• take the weight off one's feet
• the cat would eat fish but would not wet her feet
• think on one's feet
• to one's feet
• trip over one's own two feet
• two left feet
• under one's feet
• vote with one's feet
• washing of feet

Etymology 2

Noun

feet

1. (obsolete) Fact; performance; feat.

Anagrams

• ETFE, fete, fête, teef

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)