Lovely Little Lexemes
Exploring the strange and wonderful English language, one word at a time.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Foot
Foot \foot\ , noun;
My baby's little
feet
! (
credit
)
Foot
comes from Old English
fot
from Proto-Germanic
*fot
, which ultimately derives from Proto-Indo-European
*ped-.
The plural form of
foot
is
feet
which, like
tooth
/
teeth
is a result of i-mutation.
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