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Middle French
Noun
foet m (plural foets)
- whip
Descendants
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian fōt, from Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds.
Pronunciation
Noun
foet c (plural fuotten or fiet, diminutive fuotsje)
- foot (of a person)
Usage notes
- The plural fiet is archaic.
Further reading
- “foet”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011