"feet" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /fiːt/ Audio: en-us-feet.ogg [US]
enPR: fēt Rhymes: -iːt Etymology: 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”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ped-}}, {{inh|en|enm|feet}} Middle English feet, {{m|enm|fet}} fet, {{inh|en|ang|fēt}} Old English fēt, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*fōtiz}} Proto-Germanic *fōtiz, {{inh|en|ine-pro|*pódes}} Proto-Indo-European *pódes, {{m|ine-pro|*pṓds||foot}} *pṓds (“foot”), {{cog|stq|Fäite|t=feet}} Saterland Frisian Fäite (“feet”), {{cog|fy|fiet|t=feet}} West Frisian fiet (“feet”), {{cog|de|Füße|t=feet}} German Füße (“feet”), {{cog|da|fødder|t=feet}} Danish fødder (“feet”), {{cog|sv|fötter|t=feet}} Swedish fötter (“feet”), {{cog|fo|føtur|t=feet}} Faroese føtur (“feet”), {{cog|is|fætur|t=feet}} Icelandic fætur (“feet”) Head templates: {{head|en|noun form}} feet
  1. plural of foot Tags: form-of, plural Form of: foot
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} feet
  1. (obsolete) Fact; performance; feat. Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): Units of measure
    Sense id: en-feet-en-noun-eH0q6xNd Disambiguation of Units of measure: 34 66 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 70 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 29 71
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

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