nounneutera-stemstep; stride; pace; gaitFrom Proto-Indo-European *ped-ó-m (‘step’), from root *ped- (‘to walk, to step; to stumble, to fall’). Cognates are Hittite 𒁉𒂊𒁕𒀭 (pe-e-da-an /pēdan/, ‘place; floor, ground’), Old Armenian հետ (het, ‘foot; footstep, footprint, track; trace, vestige; way, path’), Scottish Gaelic feadh (‘extent, length; fathom’), Ancient Greek πέδον (pédon, ‘ground, earth’), Sanskrit पद (padá, ‘step, pace, stride’), and Latin oppidō (‘very, greatly, much’).