English

fan-foot

From fan + foot.

A compound of fan + foot

Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- ‘to blow’

Latin vannus ‘fan for winnowing grain’

Old English fann ‘a winnowing fan’

Middle English fan

English fan

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 Zanclognatha tarsipennalis, a species of litter moth of the family Erebidae.

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

Etymograph / fan-foot