femm
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Middle Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Related somehow to femain, femmain (“(edible) seaweed”), from Proto-Celtic *wimmonā.
Noun[edit]
femm (gender unknown)
- a type of seaweed
Descendants[edit]
- Irish: feam
Mutation[edit]
| Middle Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| femm | ḟemm | femm pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading[edit]
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “femm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language