foot – English noun declension

English noun forms of foot

Noun: foot
Singularfoot
Pluralfeet

Sample Sentences

  • A spider has eight feet.
  • Southern Italy is shaped like a foot.
  • And when I ſawe him, I fell at his feete as dead : and hee laid his right hand vpon me, ſaying vnto mee, Feare not, *I am the firſt,and the laſt. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 1:17:]
  • We went there by foot because we could not afford a taxi.
  • There is a lot of foot traffic on this street.
  • I'll meet you at the foot of the stairs.
  • We came and stood at the foot of the bed.
  • The host should sit at the foot of the table.
  • The feet of the stove hold it a safe distance above the floor.
  • The flag pole, which is 20 feet high, was hoisted by a six-foot tall man.
  • My sis's just over six foot two.
  • No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap. [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter XX, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
  • No trees have grown on the windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean for tens of thousands of years — just shrubs and other low-lying vegetation. That’s why a recent arboreal discovery nearly 20 feet (6 meters) beneath the ground caught researchers’ attention. [2024 September 27, Katie Hunt, “Scientists discover hidden ancient forest on treeless island”, in CNN:]
  • King John went to battle with ten thousand foot and one thousand horse.
  • His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot. [1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater:]
  • He removes a gold lighter from his pocket, flips it open, and waves the flame over the foot, taking short, sucking pulls off the head till it’s lit. [2022, Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You, 4th Estate (2023), page 128:]
  • To make the mainsail fuller in shape, the outhaul is eased to reduce the tension on the foot of the sail.
  • Flutter is when the leech or foot of a sail is vibrating from the wind [2021, Mike Westin, Olle Landsell, Nina Olofsson, Par Olofsson, Seamanship 2.0, Bloomsbury Publishing:]
  • (b) sporophyte with foot reduced, the entire sporophyte enveloped by the calyptra, which is ± stipitate at the base. [1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 4:]
  • To conſider the vvhole of the Subject, to read and think on all ſides, to object plainly, and anſvver directly, upon the foot of dry Reaſon and Argument, vvou'd be a very tedious and troubleſome Affair. [1732, George Berkeley, “The Sixth Dialogue”, in Alciphron: Or, The Minute Philosopher. […], volume II, London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC, section XXXI, page 121:]
  • May 20, 1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Horace Mann
  • As to his being on the foot of a servant.

Nouns inflected like foot

foot,

Etymology

1. From Middle English fot, fote, foot, from Old English fōt, from Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Doublet of pes, pie (“Spanish unit of length”), and pous.
2. Cognates
3. *Scots fit (“foot”)
4. *Yola voote (“foot”)
5. *North Frisian fut, fötj (“foot”)
6. *Saterland Frisian Fout (“foot”)
7. *West Frisian foet (“foot”)
8. *Cimbrian buus, vuaz, vuus (“foot”)
9. *Dutch voet (“foot”)
10. *Dutch Low Saxon voot (“foot”)
11. *German Fuß, Fuss (“foot”)
12. *German Low German Faut, Foot (“foot”)
13. *Gottscheerish vúəs (“foot”)
14. *Luxembourgish Fouss (“foot”)
15. *Mòcheno vuas (“foot”)
16. *Vilamovian füs (“foot”)
17. *Yiddish פֿוס (fus, “foot”)
18. *Danish fod (“foot”)
19. *Faroese and Icelandic fótur (“foot”)
20. *Jamtish fót (“foot”)
21. *Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish fot (“foot”)
22. *Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐍄𐌿𐍃 (fōtus, “foot”). See: Middle English Nouns 'fot', Dutch Nouns 'voet', German Nouns 'Fuß', Danish Nouns 'fod', Gothic Nouns '𐍆𐍉𐍄𐌿𐍃'.

Verbs referencing "foot"

Spanish Nouns pie, Latin Nouns pes, German Nouns Fuß, Ancient Greek Nouns πούς, Danish Nouns fod, Russian Nouns фут, Ukrainian Nouns фут, Ancient Greek Nouns δάπεδον, Swedish Nouns fjät, Danish Nouns fjed.