femme
Middle French
/ˈfa.mə/
noun
Definitions
- wife
- woman female adult human being
Etymology
Inherited from Old French fame (celebrity, renown) inherited from Latin femina (woman) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-éh₂, *dʰeh₁m̥h₁néh₂ (nursing, breastfeeding).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-éh₂, *dʰeh₁m̥h₁néh₂
Gloss
nursing, breastfeeding
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- fame English
- femme English
- transfeminated English
- (homo) *feminus Latin
- *feminus Latin
- -ellus Latin
- femina Latin
- fāma Latin
- fēmina Latin
- feminisme Dutch, Flemish
- femme French
- femme d'État French
- femme fatale French
- femmelette French
- sage-femme French
- *dʰeh₁(y)- Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-éh₂, *dʰeh₁m̥h₁néh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰeh₁-m̥n-eh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- feminizm Polish
- fame Old French
- feme Old French
- fame Middle Dutch
- femër Albanian
- *fēmanā Proto-Italic
- fanm Haitian, Haitian Creole
- fam Mauritian Creole
- fanne Bourguignon
- fam Louisiana Creole French
- fame Louisiana Creole French
- fanm Seychellois Creole
- fanm Antillean Creole
- fam Karipúna Creole French
- fanme Champenois
- femme Poitevin-Saintongeais