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Where does “fom” come from?

fom (Romansch) comes from Latin fames, from Proto-Indo-European dʰH- — to disappear.

fom (Romansch): hunger

Definitions

  1. hunger

Ancestry of “fom”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinfameshunger
2Proto-Indo-EuropeandʰH-to disappear
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