English

footmaker

From foot + maker.

A compound of foot + maker

Proto-Indo-European *pṓds ‘foot’

Proto-Germanic *fōts ‘foot’

Proto-West Germanic *fōt

Old English fōt ‘foot’

Middle English fot ‘foot’

English foot

Old English macian ‘to perform or carry out (a miracle)’

Middle English maken ‘to make or create’

Middle English maker ‘God as creator of all’

English maker

Today it means

noun An assistant glassblower who forms the foot of the glass vessel.

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

Etymograph / footmaker