femm

Middle Irish

Etymology

Related somehow to femain, femmain (“(edible) seaweed”), from Proto-Celtic *wimmonā.

Noun

femm (gender unknown)

1. a type of seaweed

Descendants

• Irish: feam

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
femm	ḟemm	femm pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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