English
fleetfooted
From fleet + footed.
Proto-Indo-European *plewd- ‘to flow, run’
Proto-Germanic *fleutaną ‘to float, stream’
Old English flēotan ‘to float’
Old English flēot ‘ship’
Middle English flete
English fleet
Proto-Indo-European *ped- ‘to walk, to step’
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Proto-West Germanic *fōt ‘foot’
Old English fōt ‘an organ in humans and animals used for…’
Middle English fot ‘a foot’
Middle English foted ‘having a type or number of feet’
English footed
Today it means
adj Swift on one's feet.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / fleetfooted