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• /ˈfʊtə(ɹ)/
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• CMU ARPABET: F UH1 T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English footer, equivalent to foot + -er.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ped- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *pṓds Proto-Germanic *fōts Proto-West Germanic *fōt Old English fōt Middle English fot Proto-Indo-European *bhel-der. Proto-Germanic *balluz Old English *beall Middle English bal Middle English fotbal English football English -er English footer From football + -er (“Oxford -er”).

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

30 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 頁脚 (yèjiǎo) — line of information at the bottom of a page
• Czech: zápatí — line of information at the bottom of a page
• Dutch: voettekst — line of information at the bottom of a page
• Estonian: jalus — line of information at the bottom of a page
• Finnish: alatunniste — line of information at the bottom of a page
• French: pied de page — line of information at the bottom of a page
• German: Fußzeile — line of information at the bottom of a page
• Hungarian: lábléc — line of information at the bottom of a page
• Hungarian: élőláb — line of information at the bottom of a page
• Indonesian: sukuan — line of information at the bottom of a page
• Indonesian: kaki — line of information at the bottom of a page
• Italian: piè — line of information at the bottom of a page
• Macedonian: подножје (podnožje) — line of information at the bottom of a page
• Malay: pengaki — line of information at the bottom of a page
• Māori: hiku — line of information at the bottom of a page
• Norwegian Bokmål: bunntekst — line of information at the bottom of a page
• Polish: stopka — line of information at the bottom of a page
• Russian: ни́жний колонти́тул (nížnij kolontítul) — line of information at the bottom of a page
• Spanish: pie de página — line of information at the bottom of a page
• Swedish: sidfot — line of information at the bottom of a page
• Finnish: -jalkainen — something that is a stated number of feet in some dimension
• Finnish: futis — slang: soccer
• French: foot — slang: soccer
• Hungarian: foci — slang: soccer
• Indonesian: bola kaki — slang: soccer
• Finnish: hengailla — slang: to meddle
• Finnish: chillailla — slang: to meddle
• French: glander — slang: to meddle
• French: glandouiller — slang: to meddle
• Spanish: perder el tiempo — slang: to meddle