fom

See also: FOM and fòm

Hausa

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fôm/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ɸâŋ]

Noun

fôm m

form

Middle English

Alternative forms

fam, fome, foom, foome

Etymology

From Old English fām, from Proto-West Germanic *faim, from Proto-Germanic *faimaz.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fɔːm/
(Northern) IPA^(key): /faːm/
Rhymes: -ɔːm

Noun

fom (plural fomes)

foam (layer of bubbles associated with the sea)
Upward-floating detritus; dregs, residue.
The ocean (a large, open body of water)
(rare) spit, slobber (liquid emitted from the mouth, used in medieval medicine)

Derived terms

Descendants

English: foam
- → Faroese: fómur
Scots: fame, faim, faem

References

“fōm, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-20.

Romansch

Alternative forms

fam (Puter)

Etymology

From Latin famēs.

Noun

fom f (usually uncountable)

(Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) hunger

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from French forme.

Noun

fom (nominative plural foms)

form
shape

Declension

declension of fom

	singular	plural
nominative	fom	foms
genitive	foma	fomas
dative	fome	fomes
accusative	fomi	fomis
vocative ¹	o fom!	o foms!
predicative ²	fomu	fomus

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only

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