Fuim

Bavarian

Alternative forms

• Füm (East Central Bavarian, Vienna)
• Fülm (Southern Bavarian)

Etymology

Borrowed from English film, from Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-West Germanic *filmīn-, from Proto-Germanic *filmīn- (“thin skin, membrane”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fuem/

Noun

Fuim m (plural Fuim, diminutive Fuimerl) (West Central Bavarian)

1. film (a thin layer of some substance)
2. (photography) photographic film
3. motion picture

Derived terms

• fuiman
• verfuiman