foothill

English

Etymology

foot +‎ hill

Noun

foothill (plural foothills)

1. A hill at the base of a mountain or mountain range.
   • 2012 July 15, Richard Williams, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track‎^[1], Guardian Unlimited:

     The summit of the climb came 38km from the end of stage 14, which began in Limoux and ended in Foix in the foothills of the Pyrenees, and the incident occurred as the peloton emerged into the light and passed under the banner at the top, a quarter of an hour behind a five-man breakaway.

Derived terms

• Foothills County
• foothill pine

Translations

hill at the base of a mountain

• Bulgarian: подножие (bg) n (podnožie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 山麓 (zh) (shānlù), 山腳／山脚 (zh) (shānjiǎo)

• Czech: podhůří (cs) n
• Finnish: aluskukkula
• French: contrefort (fr) m, piémont (fr) m
• Galician: pé (gl) m, aba (gl) f
• Georgian: მთისწინეთი (mtisc̣ineti)
• German: Vorberg m
• Greek:

  Ancient: σφυρόν n (sphurón)

• Hindi: तलहटी (hi) f (talahṭī)
• Japanese: 前山 (ぜんざん, zenzan), 山裾 (ja) (やますそ, yamasuso)
• Macedonian: по́дножје n (pódnožje), пре́дгорје n (prédgorje)
• Moroccan Amazigh: ⴰⴷⵉⵔ m (adir), ⴷⴷⵉⵔ m (ddir)
• Russian: предго́рье (ru) n (predgórʹje), подно́жие (ru) n (podnóžije)
• Serbo-Croatian: predbrđe n
• Tagalog: paambundok
• Walloon: pîmont (wa) m