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feme

See also: Feme

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English feme, from Anglo-Norman feme (“woman”). Doublet of femina, femme, and hembra.

Noun

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feme (plural femes)

  1. (law, historical) A woman.
    • 1825, Henry Roscoe, Thomas Roscoe, Westminster Hall: Or, Professional Relics and Anecdotes of the Bar, Bench and Woolsack:
      TRESPASS FOR INTERMEDDLING WITH A FEME.
      There are some curious decisions in the old books regarding this point of law, with which it may be useful to be acquainted. In Br. Ab. Tresp. 40, it is said that a man may aid a feme who falls upon the ground from a horse, and so if she be sick, and the same if her baron would murder her. And the same per Rede if the feme would kill herself. And per Fineux a man may conduct a feme on a pilgrimage. So where a feme is going to market, it is lawful for another to suffer her to ride behind him on his horse to market. (Br. Ab. Tresp. 207.) And if a feme says that she is in jeopardy of her life by her baron, and prays him (a stranger) to carry her to a justice of the peace, he may lawfully do it. (Br. Ab. Tresp. 207.) But where any feme is out of the way, it is not lawful for a man to take her to his house, if she was not in danger of being lost in the night, or being drowned with water. (Br. Ab. Tresp. 213.)

Derived terms

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Anagrams

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Manx

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Etymology

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From Old Irish feidm (“effort”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *wedesman, from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“to lead”). Compare Scottish Gaelic feum and Irish feidhm.

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Noun

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feme m (genitive singular feme, plural femeyn)

  1. need, necessity
    myr vees feme rish
    as needed

Mutation

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Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
feme eme veme
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “feidm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Middle English

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Verb

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feme

  1. Alternative form of femen

Old French

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feme oblique singular, f (oblique plural femes, nominative singular feme, nominative plural femes)

  1. Alternative form of fame

Spanish

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Verb

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feme

  1. inflection of femar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Walloon

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Etymology

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From Old French feme, fame, from Latin femina, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥n-eh₂ (“who sucks”), derivation of the verbal root *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, suckle”).

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Noun

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feme f (plural femes)

  1. woman
  2. wife

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