zapato
/θaˈpato/ · A2 · noun · m
shoe
👞 zapato: you tap a toe in a zapato — sa-PAH-toe
The middle of the word sounds like 'pat' and the end like 'toe': a shoe is what pats the ground around your toe. Same root as French 'savate' (old shoe), which also gave English 'sabotage' and 'sabot'.