Words that come from Proto-Italic “fēmanā”

235 words across 51 languages descend from Proto-Italic fēmanā — including female, fame, feminist, feminine, feminism, effeminate, femme, femaleness.

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English (108)

Latin (14)

French (10)

Italian (10)

Spanish (9)

Old French (8)

Danish (5)

Middle English (5)

Catalan (4)

Portuguese (4)

Occitan (4)

Finnish (4)

Norman (4)

Romanian (4)

Ido (2)

Japanese (2)

Dutch (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Vulgar Latin (2)

Middle French (1)

Karipúna Creole French (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Polish (1)

Turkish (1)

Galician (1)

Esperanto (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Albanian (1)

Dalmatian (1)

Hungarian (1)

Greek (1)

Friulian (1)

Venetian (1)

Neapolitan (1)

Aromanian (1)

Ladin (1)

Istriot (1)

Korean (1)

Antillean Creole (1)

Seychellois Creole (1)

Champenois (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Poitevin-Saintongeais (1)

German (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Walloon (1)

Louisiana Creole French (1)

Mauritian Creole (1)

Franco-Provençal (1)

Bourguignon (1)

Medieval Latin (1)