feme
Walloon
noun
Definitions
- woman
- wife
Etymology
Inherited from Old French feme inherited from Latin femina (woman) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥n-eh₂ (who sucks, one who suckles, one who is sucked, nursing, breastfeeding).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*dʰeh₁-m̥n-eh₂
Gloss
who sucks, one who suckles, one who is sucked, nursing, breastfeeding
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- transfeminated English
- (homo) *feminus Latin
- *feminus Latin
- -ellus Latin
- femina Latin
- fēmina Latin
- fēminīnus Latin
- feminisme Dutch, Flemish
- femme French
- *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-éh₂, *dʰeh₁m̥h₁néh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰeh₁-m̥n-eh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- feminizm Polish
- fame Old French
- feme Old French
- femër Albanian
- *fēmanā Proto-Italic
- fanne Bourguignon
- fanme Champenois
- femme Poitevin-Saintongeais