fom

See also: FOM and fòm

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Foma.

Symbol

fom

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Foma.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Foma terms

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Inherited from Latin fūmus.

Noun

fom m (plural foms) (ORB, broad)

1. smoke

References

• fom in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Further information

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

Gullah

Alternative forms

• frum

Etymology

From English from.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /foːm/, /fəm/

Preposition

fom

1. from
2. of

References

• De Nyew Testament‎, Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc., 2025
• Virginia Mixson Geraty, Gulluh fuh oonuh: Gullah for You (1997)

Hausa

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fôm m

1. form

Middle English

Alternative forms

• fam, fome, foom, foome

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fom (plural fomes)

1. foam (layer of bubbles associated with the sea)
   • a. 1333, Alcuin, “Poem 22: Quomodo se habet homo?; Fol. 204v”, in William Herebert, transl., Opera (British Library MS. Add. 46919)‎, Hereford; republished as The Works of William Herebert, OFM (Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse), [Ann Arbor]: University of Michigan, a. 2018:

     Also þe lanterne in þe wynd þat sone is aqueynt, / Ase sparkle in þe se þat sone is adreynt, / Ase vom in þe strem þat sone is tothwith, / Ase smoke in þe lift þat passet oure sith.

     Like a lantern in the wind that soon gets quenched, / Like a glimmer in the sea that soon gets drenched / Like foam in the water that soon is dispersed, / Like smoke in the sky that passes [in] our sight.

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)

Derived terms

• fomen
• fomy
• fomynge

Descendants

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

References

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

Romansch

Alternative forms

• fam (Puter)

Etymology

From Latin famēs.

Noun

fom f (usually uncountable)

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

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from French forme.

Noun

fom (nominative plural foms)

1. form
2. shape

Declension

Declension of fom

	singular	plural
nominative	fom	foms
genitive	foma	fomas
dative	fome	fomes
accusative	fomi	fomis
vocative 1	o fom!	o foms!
predicative 2	fomu	fomus

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only