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- Middle English · inherited fromfoot path
- English todayfootpath
From Middle English foot path, footpath; equivalent to foot + path. Compare Saterland Frisian Foutpaad (“footpath”), West Frisian fuotpaad (“footpath”), Dutch voetpad (“footpath”), German Low German Footpadd (“footpath”), German Fußpfad (“footpath”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.