Etymology

foothill

F4O1O1T1H4I1L1L1

Today it means: A hill at the base of a mountain or mountain range. Full definition →

English hill ← Middle English fot ← Old English fōt
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The story

  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. Englishfoot
  8. Englishhill
  9. English todayfoothill

From foot + hill.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.