Other forms: toes
A toe is one of the five small parts at the front of your foot. Stub your toe, on tiptoe, big toe.
The big toe does most of the work of pushing off, which is why losing it affects walking far more than losing any of the others. To toe the line means to conform, from lining up with toes at a mark. Note that the word is Old English and comes from a root meaning to show or point.
1nountoeOne of the five small parts at the front of the foot.
“I stubbed my toe on the corner of the bed.”
toe is a body part.
Old English ta comes from a Germanic word, from a root meaning to show or point. Digit covers the same body part through Latin.
Proto-Indo-European
*deyḱ- — to show
Proto-Germanic
*taihwǭ
Proto-West Germanic
*taihā
Old English
tā
Middle English
to
English, today
toe
Built from
From Middle English to, from Old English tā, (Mercian) tāhe, from Proto-West Germanic taihā, from Proto-Germanic taihwǭ, from tīhwaną (“to show, announce”), from Proto-Indo-European deyḱ- (“to show”). Cognate with Dutch teen, {{cog|de|
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA