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feorm

Pronunciation: /fe͜orm/

“feorm” is an Old English word. Its 5 meanings in English:

noun

  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

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.

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