feet

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · inherited from*pódes
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*fōtiz
3. Old English · inherited fromfēt
4. Middle English · inherited fromfeet
5. English todayfeet

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”).