English

footfault

From foot + fault.

A compound of foot + fault

Proto-Indo-European *pṓds ‘foot’

Proto-Germanic *fōts ‘foot’

Proto-West Germanic *fōt

Old English fōt ‘foot’

Middle English fot ‘foot’

English foot

Latin fallō ‘to deceive’

Vulgar Latin *fallita ‘shortcoming’

Anglo-Norman faute

Middle English faute

English fault

Today it means

verb To commit a foot fault.

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

Etymograph / footfault