feorm

English

Noun

feorm (plural feorms)

1. (historical) Alternative form of farm
   • 1647, Nathaniel Bacon, An Historical and Political Discourse of the Laws and Government of England […] :

     Thence the Leases so made were called Feormes or Farmes, which word signifieth Victuals.

   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
     II. 320
   • The most usual and customary feorm or rent […] must be reserved yearly on such lease.

Related terms

• feorm-fultum

Anagrams

• eForm, forme, for me, Frome, frome, formé, e-form, eform

Old English

Alternative forms

• farm, færm, fearm, fyrm, fiorm, form

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fermu, from Proto-Germanic *fermō (“means of living, subsistence”), from Proto-Germanic *ferhwō (“life force, body, being”), from Proto-Indo-European *perkʷ- (“life, force, strength, tree”). See English farm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe͜orm/, [fe͜orˠm]

Noun

feorm f

1. food, sustenance, provision; meal, feast, banquet
2. entertainment
3. possessions, goods, supplies; stores
4. profit, benefit
5. rent, especially rent or tax paid in food or other provisions

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	feorm	feorma, feorme
accusative	feorme	feorma, feorme
genitive	feorme	feorma
dative	feorme	feormum

Derived terms

• feormehām
• feormere
• feormian
• fiermþ
• winterfeorm

 

Descendants

• Middle English: ferme, farme, ferm, fyrme (Late Middle English), feorme, veorme (Early Middle English) (in part)
  • English: farm
    • → Dutch: farm
    • → Finnish: farmi
    • → German: Farm
    • → Portuguese: farme, farma
    • → Yiddish: פֿאַרם (farm)
    • → Spanish: farmear
    • → Thai: ฟาร์ม (faam)
  • Scots: ferm
  • → Welsh: fferm
• → Medieval Latin: firma (see there for further descendants)