faumme

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• fâme , faume (Guernsey)
• femme (Jersey, continental Normandy)
• foume (continental Normandy)
• fenme (Cotentin)

From Old French fame , feme , fenme , femme , from Latin fēmina , from Proto-Indo-European *dheh1-m̥h1n-eh2 ("who sucks"), derivation of the verbal root *dheh1(y)- ("to suck, suckle").

• IPA ^(key): /fɔm/, /fɔːm/

faumme f (plural faummes )

1. (Guernsey ) woman

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