fermen
FromDutchferment, fromMiddle Frenchferment, fromLatinfermentare(“to leaven, ferment”), fromfermentum(“substance causing fermentation”), fromfervere(“to boil, seethe”).
fermen (pluralfermen-fermen)
FromOld Englishfeormian, possibly fromProto-West Germanic*furbēn.
fermen
1 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Borrowed fromAnglo-Normanfermer; equivalent toferme(“lease”) +-en(infinitival suffix).
fermen
1 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Borrowed fromOld Frenchfermer, fromLatinfirmō, firmāre; equivalent toferme(“firm”) +-en(infinitival suffix).
fermen
1 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.