fom

Inherited from Latin fūmus.

fom m (plural foms) (ORB, broad)

1. smoke

• fom in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 928: “il fumo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France – map 616: “fumée” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fūmus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 852

• IPA^(key): /fôm/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

fôm m

1. form

• fam, fome, foom, foome

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

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

fom (plural fomes)

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

• fomen
• fomy
• fomynge

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

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

• fam (Puter)

From Latin famēs.

fom f (usually uncountable)

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

Borrowed from French forme.

fom (nominative plural foms)

1. form
2. shape