Etymology

footer

foot·er
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Today it means: A footgoer; pedestrian Full definition →

Middle English footer
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footer · noun1

  1. Middle English · inherited fromfooter
  2. English todayfooter

From Middle English footer, equivalent to foot + -er.

footer · noun2

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ped-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pṓds
  3. Proto-Germanic*fōts
  4. Proto-West Germanic*fōt
  5. Old Englishfōt
  6. Middle Englishfot
  7. Proto-Indo-European*bʰel-
  8. Proto-Germanic*balluz
  9. Old English*beall
  10. Middle Englishbal
  11. Middle Englishfotbal
  12. Englishfootball
  13. English todayfooter

From football + -er (“Oxford -er”).

footer · verb3

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*bʰew-“to hit”
  2. Latin · derived fromfutuere
  3. French · derived fromfoutre“to fuck”
  4. English todayfooter

18th century. From fouter, foutre (“valueless thing”), possibly from French foutre (“to fuck”), from Latin futuere. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to hit”).

Words from the same roots

Frenchfoutre all →

futter

Proto-Indo-European*bʰew- all →

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