faume
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Norman
Alternative forms
- fâme, faumme (Guernsey)
- femme (Jersey, continental Normandy)
- foume (continental Normandy)
- fenme (Cotentin)
Etymology
From Old French femme, feme, fame, fenme, from Latin fēmina, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥n-eh₂ (“who sucks”), derivation of the verbal root *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, suckle”).
Pronunciation
Noun
faume f (plural faumes)
- (Guernsey) wife
- 2006, Peggy Collenette, “Au shaoux du Vouest”, in P'tites Lures Guernésiaises, Cromwell Press, page 16:
- Mess Gaudiaon et sa faume la Sophie decidirent qui voulais allai au shaoux du Vouest.
- Mr Gaudion and his wife Sophie decided that they wanted to go to the West Show.
- (Guernsey) woman
- 2006, Marie de Garis, “Enne p'tite ôlure”, in P'tites Lures Guernésiaises, Cromwell Press, page 24:
- V'là les daeux faummes à palaïr atour les r'v'énànts et toutes sortes dé sorcheul'rie et ditaï tché, en buvànt leurs thée.
- There were the two women talking about ghosts and all sorts of witchcraft and such things while drinking their tea.