femm
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]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| femm | ḟemm | femm pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “femm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language