English
affamish
Affamish comes from French affamer ‘to starve’.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentaffamer‘to starve’
- Englishearliest quotation 1595affamish
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentaffamer‘to starve’
- Englishearliest quotation 1595affamish
Earliest quotation: 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., [Amoretti.] Sonnet LXXXVII: “With light thereof I do myself sustain, / And…”
A compound of ad ‘toward, to (direction)’ + fames ‘hunger’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd ‘near, at’
Proto-Italic *ad ‘toward, to, on, up to, for’
Latin ad ‘toward, to (direction)’
Latin affatim ‘sufficiently, amply, enough’
Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- ‘to disappear’
Latin fames ‘hunger’
Every English word from French affamer
Today it means
verb To cause (somebody) to die of hunger; to starve.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French affamer / affamish