different between lowermost vs ankle

English

Etymology

lower +? -most

Adjective

lowermost (not comparable)

1. lowest

   Antonym: uppermost

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• ancle (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English ankel, ancle, ankyll, from Old English *ancol (compare ancl?ow (“ankle”) > Modern English anclef, ancliff, ancley), from Proto-Germanic *ankulaz (“ankle, hip”); akin to Icelandic ökkla, ökli, Danish and Swedish ankel, Dutch enklaauw, enkel, German Enkel, Old Norse akka, Old Frisian anckel, and perhaps Old High German encha, ancha (“thigh”, “shin”), from the Proto-Germanic *ankij? (“ankle”, “hip”).

Compare with Sanskrit ???? (a?ga, “limb”), ??????? (a?guri, “finger”), Latin angulus. Compare haunch and Greek prefix ??????- (ankulo-, “joint, crooked, bent”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ?.k?l/
• Rhymes: -æ?k?l

Noun

ankle (plural ankles)

1. The skeletal joint which connects the foot with the leg; the uppermost portion of the foot and lowermost portion of the leg, which contain this skeletal joint.

Derived terms

Coordinate terms

• spat
• wrist

Translations

Verb

ankle (third-person singular simple present ankles, present participle ankling, simple past and past participle ankled)

1. (US, slang) To walk.
   • 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage 2010, p. 275:

     After a while he got up and ankled his way down the corridor and met Penny coming out of the toilet.

2. (cycling) To cyclically angle the foot at the ankle while pedaling, to maximize the amount of work applied to the pedal during each revolution.