faim
See also: fáim
Bourguignon
Etymology
Noun
faim f (plural faims)
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French faim, fain, from Latin famēs (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (“to disappear”). Compare Galician fame, Portuguese fome, Italian fame and Romanian foame.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɛ̃/
Audio (Paris): (file) Audio (Switzerland (Valais)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) - Homophones: faims, fin, fins, feins, feint, feints
- Rhymes: -ɛ̃
Noun
faim f (plural faims)
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Guianese Creole: fen
- Louisiana Creole: fim
- Mauritian Creole: fin, ⇒ lafin
- Réunion Creole French: fin
Further reading
- “faim”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Louisiana Creole
Etymology
Noun
faim
Verb
faim
- to be hungry
References
- Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales
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- French terms inherited from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French terms with homophones
- Rhymes:French/ɛ̃
- Rhymes:French/ɛ̃/1 syllable
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French feminine nouns
- Louisiana Creole terms inherited from French
- Louisiana Creole terms derived from French
- Louisiana Creole lemmas
- Louisiana Creole nouns
- Louisiana Creole verbs