English

footlog

From foot + log.

A compound of foot + log

Proto-Indo-European *pṓds ‘foot’

Proto-Germanic *fōts ‘foot’

Proto-West Germanic *fōt

Old English fōt ‘foot’

Middle English fot ‘foot’

English foot

Middle English logge ‘large long stick’

English log

Today it means

noun A log used as a footbridge.

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