feirm

== Irish == === Alternative forms === feilm (Cois Fharraige) === Etymology === From Old French ferme, from Medieval Latin ferma, firma (“rent, tax, tribute, farm”), from Old English feorm (“rent, provision, supplies, feast”), from Proto-Germanic *firmō, *firhuma- (“means of living, subsistence”), from *firhu- (“life force, body, being”), from Proto-Indo-European *perkʷ- (“life, force, strength, tree”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfʲɛɾʲəmʲ/ === Noun === feirm f (genitive singular feirme, nominative plural feirmeacha) farm ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Mutation === === Further reading === Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “feirm”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “feirm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language