Etymograph

English

Hong Kong foot

From Hong Kong + foot (unit of length).

A compound of Hong Kong + foot

Cantonese 香港 ‘incense harbor’

English Hong Kong

Proto-Indo-European *pṓds ‘foot’

Proto-Germanic *fōts ‘foot’

Proto-West Germanic *fōt

Old English fōt ‘foot’

Middle English fot ‘foot’

English foot

Today it means

noun A chek, the Hong Kong variant of the Chinese foot now standardized as 0.371475 meters.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Hong Kong foot