# 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: /fiːt/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːt
* Homophone: feat

#### Noun

feet
* 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
* feetfirst
* feet first
* 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
* 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
* (obsolete) Fact; performance; feat.

### Anagrams

* ETFE, fete, fête, teef

## Luxembourgish
### Verb

feet
* inflection of feeën:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person plural present indicative
** second-person plural imperative

## Middle English
### Noun

feet
* plural of fot

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

feet n
* definite singular of fe (Etymology 2)

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

feet n
* definite singular of fe (Etymology 2)