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footless

adj

Etymology

From Middle English fotles, from Old English *fōtlēas (only found as fēþelēas (“footless”)), from Proto-Germanic *fōtalausaz (“footless”), equivalent to foot + -less. Cognate with Dutch voetloos, German fußlos, Swedish fotlös, Icelandic fótalaus (“footless, legless”).

  1. inherited from *fōtalausaz✻ — “footless”
  2. inherited from *fōtlēas✻
  3. inherited from fotles

Definitions

  1. Without feet.

    • The snake is a footless creature.

  2. Clumsy or inept.

The neighborhood

Derived

footlessly, footlessness

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for footless. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA